What are these IBM 'thingys'

[Fred Cisin]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, MikeS wrote:
> Of course now we've seen the error of our ways and have returned to parallel
> processing; a modern card reader would no doubt read cards top to bottom
> again, with each column connected to its own CPU.

80 12 bit CPUs?
Naah. just one (or 12) 80 bit CPUs?

On nit to pick:
"NINE edge first"  They were USUALLY read bottom to top.
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 X Y    (X,Y were sometimes called 11,12)


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