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- ...rmedal's 1986 book "The Tomorrow Makers". In 2023, MIT Museum staff began processing the listing, and volunteers transcribed it to machine readable files. The * DEC Type 555 "[[DECtape|microtapes]]" with data channel.5 KB (675 words) - 08:28, 19 January 2024
- ...eration of computing devices, such as IBM's [[punched card]] business data processing devices ("electric accounting machines", as IBM called them). Numbers in [[ It also used four extra-wide [[paper tape]] readers, both to hold input data (three readers), and as the source for its [[program]] (although some confi4 KB (566 words) - 13:20, 24 December 2023
- ...the processing of data stored on [[punched card]]s (the primary medium of data storage in the business world at the time). It rapidly became the first com * [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/1401/ IBM 1401 Data Processing System] - documentation at [[Bitsavers]]3 KB (447 words) - 18:58, 5 January 2024
- The '''IBM 1620''' (formally the '''IBM 1620 Data Processing System'''; informally known as the '''CADET''', for 'Can't Add, Doesn't Eve ...ers in [[binary-coded decimal|BCD]]); each location holds four [[bit]]s of data, a 'wordmark' bit (principally used to mark the end of variable sized [[ope3 KB (403 words) - 04:02, 21 December 2023
- The '''DX10 Data Channel''' was an adapter which could interface between [[Original Equipmen ...ontrol storage memory', and was loaded into the DX10 by the host [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] after power-on. (The host PDP-10 can start and stop the PDP-8, a3 KB (492 words) - 20:33, 12 February 2024
- ...o support multiple [[window]]s) during his time at ARPA. His vision of a [[data network]], and studies he started while he was at ARPA, inspired [[Larry Ro ...g device hidden away in an overlit, air-conditioned basement, relentlessly processing [[punched card|punch cards]] for some large institution: ''them''.4 KB (612 words) - 00:26, 23 March 2024
- ...DSA), used with [[PDP-11]]s and with [[VAX]] single and multiple [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] systems. ...haracteristics, direct its mechanical operation, store data on or retrieve data from it, and recognize and recover from error conditions. This protocol is3 KB (392 words) - 04:13, 19 April 2024
- ...r of the same [[mainframe]] family as the [[CDC 6600]]; the dual-[[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] version of the 6400 was denominated as a '''CDC 6500'''. The 640 ..._70/60100000AL_6000_Series_Computer_Systems_HW_Reference_Aug78.pdf Control Data 6000 Series Computer Systems Hardware Reference Manual]2 KB (224 words) - 18:47, 7 February 2024
- ...ta transfers (although memory operations always transferred 4 longwords of data at a time). ...ntral Processing Unit|CPUs]] connected to the M-bus to maintain consistent data. The M-bus also supported [[interrupt]]s from [[peripheral]]s to CPUs. It u862 bytes (120 words) - 14:10, 15 January 2024
- ...machine with [[Direct Memory Access|DMA]], and [[interrupt]] the [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]]. ...eaves operations to each of them, with each transfer handling single small data item (e.g. a byte). The later block multiplexer channel had aspects of bot5 KB (704 words) - 17:20, 9 April 2024
- ...gers which consolidated the British computer industry, its commercial data-processing work was merged with [[International Computers and Tabulators]] (ICT) to fo2 KB (257 words) - 04:45, 17 March 2024
- The '''Information Processing Techniques Office''' (usually given as '''IPTO''') was an element of the [[ * [[data network]]ing (the [[ARPANET]] and [[Internet]]);1 KB (188 words) - 13:03, 12 March 2024
- ...17654); the backplane mounted in one 'Option Panel Space' in the [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] [[cabinet]]. The boards were: | 2 || L0102 || IDP || Data Path Module2 KB (246 words) - 16:14, 15 May 2024
