I love the introductory chapter in the Bendix G15 Programmers’s Reference Manual - when computers were still fresh enough that you had to start from the very basic concepts.
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/bendix/g-15/G15D_Programmers_Ref_Man.pdf
#retrocomputing #programming #bendixg15
@[email protected] Looking up sexadecimal suggests it is 16 digits too, but 0-9 v-z is 15 digits.
@jgrg Oops, it’s u-z. Corrected the post now, thanks for pointing that out.
@[email protected] I’m glad we don’t use that notation. “u” and “v” are too similar.