Early computers was Re: Relay computers

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Mon Sep 27 14:27:06 2004

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 11:51, David V. Corbin wrote:
> >>> Ron wrote....
> >>> Why not have it add ascii directly... "1" + "1" = "2" :^)

> Who EVER implied a relation between decimal representation and ascii
> representation??????????

If you generalize "ASCII" to "character set values" then many machines
did just that.
Received on Mon Sep 27 2004 - 14:27:06 BST