"VAX-11/780 was when DEC joined the 32-bit word size tidal wave."

I regret that the only experience I had with this marvelous machine was=20
as a student programmer.
I went back to school in the mid 80's  and finished up a BS in computer=20
Sci.  AFIK, there was no such degree when I dropped out in the early 60's.

The 360-30 (2030) was mostly a microprocessor machine that emulated the=20
360 instruction set. All of the products I was ever involved with were=20
8-bit channels.
The Model 30 had about a 60 bit word and a bunch of registers. Capacitor=20
read only storage Was as bad as it sounds like.

"1403's byte or word size"
Did not matter, that was whatever the control unit did. Being fully buffere=
d meant that it was as slow as needed to be but normally faster than anythi=
ng else on the electrical part.


"1620"
Kind of an oddball descendant of the 1130 world. Down right wierd in=20
that it used a table lookup scheme rather than an ALU.
Sometimes reffered to as the CADET machine, Can't Add Don't Even Try.

"When young, inexperienced, & imbued with religious ferver, I designed=20
record layouts that were longer than 80 columns just to make the IBM
card-is-king oriented people think. :-)"
I was in marketing for a while too.  Exclusive features help sell!


--=20
John Ferrell W8CCW
    Julian NC 27283
  It is better to walk alone,
than with a crowd going the wrong direction.
                   --Diane Grant


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