Comments on: Perfect Numbers (Mar, 1953) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/11/20/perfect-numbers/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:33:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: John Savard http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/11/20/perfect-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-1072750 John Savard Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:28:09 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8471#comment-1072750 Some manuals for the SWAC are available for download here (on Al Kossow's famous computer history site): http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/nbs/swac/ Some manuals for the SWAC are available for download here (on Al Kossow’s famous computer history site):

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/nbs/swac/

]]> By: Rick Auricchio http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/11/20/perfect-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-1072749 Rick Auricchio Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:15:28 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8471#comment-1072749 The Meletron ad makes it appear as if they've been able to fix the roulette results. The Meletron ad makes it appear as if they’ve been able to fix the roulette results.

]]> By: Toronto http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/11/20/perfect-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-1072718 Toronto Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:29:03 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8471#comment-1072718 Best computing/math article in a long time, Charlie! Thanks - good picture of the SWAC console, too. I wonder if we could find the instruction set of that machine - 13 opcodes is an unusual number. I bet it was a "branching" instruction set. Best computing/math article in a long time, Charlie! Thanks – good picture of the SWAC console, too.

I wonder if we could find the instruction set of that machine – 13 opcodes is an unusual number. I bet it was a “branching” instruction set.

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