I programmed a computer made By ITT in europe that controlled a letter sorting machine that used octal. It was actually very pleasant to use. The computer ran at a blistering 20Mhz and had 32K of magnetic memory. It occopied 3 bays and paper tape and a bank of switches were the only way to load a program. You had to enter a loader program first, then run the paper tape. The CPU was made out of 74 series TTL gates that had matched propagation delays. George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan B. Pearce" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Excel decimal to hex conversion? > >What? No one programming DEC PDP11's or DataGeneral 1200's anymore? > > Or 8080 micros? IIRC a fair amount of code for these was done using octal > because the way the register addressing is done lends itself to octal. I > seem to remember a fair number of programs where listings where published in > magazines like Byte were actually done as octal. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics