ibm 650

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ibm 650 - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  IBM 650
  
     <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)