IBM 650 definition
<computer> A computer, produced ca. 1955 and in use in the
late 1950s, with rotating magnetic drum storage and punched
card input. Its memory words could store 10-digit decimal
numbers and each instruction had two addresses, one for the
operand and one for address of the next instruction on the
drum.
SOAP was its (optimising) assembler. Languages used on it
included BACAIC, BALITAC, BELL, CASE SOAP III, DRUCO
I, EASE II, ELI, ESCAPE, FAST, FLAIR, FORTRANSIT,
FORTRUNCIBLE, GAT, IPL, Internal Translator, KISS,
MITILAC, MYSTIC, OMNICODE, PIT, RELATIVE,
RUNCIBLE, SIR, SOAP, Speedcoding, SPIT, SPUR.
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(1995-03-30)
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