IBM 360 turns 40 today

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Thu Apr 8 12:25:35 2004

Hi Ben
 I ment a even power of 2. sorry for the confusion. The
post about the packed decimal is actually quite correct.
Most banks don't like binary and the really don't like
floating point binary.
Dwight

>From: "ben franchuk" <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>

>Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
>> Er, I think (or at least interpreted) Tony's point to be why we are
>> celebrating this now at 40 (i.e. base 10) when 32 (base 2) is so much
>> nerdier?
>
>How the heck do you get 32 from base 2?
>Ben.
>
>
Received on Thu Apr 08 2004 - 12:25:35 BST