Hummy Arms Word Game v4.0

[EEPhil]

Trent Poly

How it's grown! Although like NU it's probably reached peak size. Unlike NU it isn't, to my knowledge, selling off campuses (former Tax building, former Central/Carlton studios)
I remember when the Newton Building had a chemistry department. We did some A level chemistry experiments there.

 

[Black Hole]

We used octal too, in my very early days, on Ferranti processors (FM-1100 seems to ring a bell). 24-bit words. I don't think hexadecimal had been thought of, or at least it was inconvenient, and the manual input was an array of binary switches in groups of three.

 

[Owen Smith]

We used octal too, in my very early days, on Ferranti processors (FM-1100 seems to ring a bell). 24-bit words. I don't think hexadecimal had been thought of, or at least it was inconvenient, and the manual input was an array of binary switches in groups of three.

I used Octal at my first job 1987 to 1990 on Data General MV/Eclipse super minicomputers. Hex had been invented but that architecture used octal for addresses.

 

[gomezz]

I worked on Sperry/Univac mainframes with 36 bit words so octal was more natural to work with. It helped to have an octalator when analysing dumps - along with highlighter pens and post-its.