On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Tom Jennings wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 15:32, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
> re: computer 'subsystem' to produce clock time
>
> > Hmm, okay. Then I guess what we'd be looking for is some device that
> > keeps continuous time. ... It would just have to be a
> > combination of hardware and software that kept the current date in the IBM
> > 650.
>
> Are you looking exclusively at the IBM 650, or any computer? Does it
The overall discussion is very useful, but in my particular case, it needs
to pertain specifically to the IBM 650, because the assertion at hand is
that a document used to discredit a certain scientist's claim to a certain
achievement has a date stamp on it that is claimed was produce by the IBM
650 using its internal clock feature. The 650 does not have such a
feature inherently, so now I'm trying to determine if there was ever an
adjunct product that IBM produced to give the 650 the ability to tell
time.
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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