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.

 

[antipodean]

I remember about 40 years ago doing repair work on a minicomputer CPU board that used 2901 bit slice chips as the ALU, and a heap of other logic around them along with bipolar ROMs for the microcode. I got that deep into dealing with HEX values as I single stepped the code to try and work out what was wrong that when I got home I found myself writing out cheques in HEX ...

But even further back having to interface a server with some Mackintosh equipment. Apple hadn't worked out how to use the dot notation for an IP address, and so you had to specify the address as a very large decimal number ... it was the very early days of Ethernet becoming common.