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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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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