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[Richard]

In article <01C65F0C.7BCFCCA0 at mse-d03>,
    M H Stein <dm561 at torfree.net>  writes:

> Carriage movement literally "stepped" through the "program", and the
> location & length of the pins were the machine language (in the truest
> sense:) instruc tions. Parallel processing of a sort, since each program
> step had multiple instructi ons; i.e. you would read the keyboard,
> add & subtract the accumulator and up to 18 registers, and print,
> all in one operation.

The first VLIW (very long instruction word) architecture? :-)
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