@enf So good (if you look carefully at the keyboard):https://digitaltmuseum.se/021026356554/skrivmaskin …
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Replying to @mwichary
*ABC.012345 DEF-+567890 Is this a typewriter made into a hex calculator?
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Replying to @enf
I’m guessing an input device to some very early computer that only had machine language?
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Replying to @mwichary
Pretty weird that anything in 1959 would have been using hex
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Replying to @mwichary
Hex I don’t think was common at all until the IBM 360. I think computer people all thought in octal before that
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Replying to @enf
I wonder if this is somehow related to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BESK Particularly:https://digitaltmuseum.se/021026356732/manoverpanel …
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Hmm, yeah, hex is a lot better than octal for a 40-bit machine
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Confirmed by the manual! http://user.it.uu.se/~foy/Documents/BESK_programmers_manual_rev_2a_1958-05-02_swedish.pdf …pic.twitter.com/kECT54C7HU
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