Integers vs. Long Integers Was: RE: [AccessD] Global Variable

On 19 May 2005 at 9:40, John W. Colby wrote:

> Look up octal.  The registers on all the Sperry Univac machines that I
> learned in the Navy had little neon lights behind plastic buttons with
> springs in them with switches in them.  Thus each button displayed the value
> of a bit and the button could be pressed to set the bit when hand
> programming them.  The registers were "grouped" into 3 bits, each group
> represented an octal "digit" (which I quote since digit is specifically
> decimal).  The entire machine, and all of its instructions were documented
> in octal.  

But you could only store 8 values in each "digit"
Look up Byte :-)

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Stuart