< 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)