The IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data-Processing Machine is an early digital computer produced by IBM in the mid-1950s. It was the first mass-produced computer...
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Bi-quinary coded decimal (section IBM 650)
Labs from Model II onwards FACOM 128 relay calculators at Fujitsu The IBM 650 uses seven bits: two bi bits (0 and 5) and five quinary bits (0, 1, 2,...
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701 was the IBM 702 and a lower-cost general-purpose sibling was the IBM 650, which gained fame as the first mass-produced computer. IBM 701 competed...
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Punch IBM 537: IBM 650 Card Read Punch IBM 543: IBM 650 Card Reader IBM 544: IBM 650 Card Punch IBM 650: IBM 650 Console Unit IBM 652: IBM 650 Disk and...
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September 14, 1956. Simultaneously a very similar product, the IBM 355, was announced for the IBM 650 RAMAC computer system. RAMAC stood for "Random Access Method...
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mass-produced computers were the Bull Gamma 3 (1952, 1,200 units) and the IBM 650 (1954, 2,000 units). Vacuum-tube technology required a great deal of electricity...
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modern standards. These included: IBM 650 (vacuum tube logic, decimal architecture, drum memory, business and scientific) IBM 305 RAMAC (vacuum tube logic...
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characters The IBM 7070, IBM 7072, and IBM 7074 are decimal, fixed-word-length machines. They use a ten-digit word like the smaller and older IBM 650, but are...
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its stored-program configurations, the Gamma 3 mostly competed with the IBM 650. Over the course of its ten-year availability, this machine facilitated...
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products, including the IBM 700 series of computer systems, IBM 650, IBM 305 RAMAC with disk drive memory, and IBM 1401, positioned IBM as the world's leading...
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