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- From: Edward.Rice@p4214.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Edward Rice)
- Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
- Path: sparky!uunet!blkcat!Uucp
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Spacewar history (was: What was the 1st computer game?)
- Message-ID: <722548948.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 14:33:14 -0500
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- Joe Morris said to All:
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- JM> For that matter, the base model PDP-1 didn't even have integer
- JM> multiply or divide...
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- The base-model IBM 1620 -- and for that matter, ALL models of the IBM 1620 --
- were nicknamed "CADET," which stood for "Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try." Even
- integer addition was performed using table lookup.
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