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[Van Snyder]

A now-retired colleague who used Illiac I as a student says the
representations of 10-15 in hex were KSNJFL, because that's how they
came out in FIGS mode on a baudot-code teletype.  He had two mnemonics
to remember them:

King Size Numbers Just For Laughs
Kind Souls Never Jostle Fat Ladies

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On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 08:30 -0800, Al Kossow wrote:
> On Mar 8, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Paul McJones wrote:
> 
> > Dag,
> >
> > The Illiac software looks pretty interesting. Does the donor want
> > to remain anonymous? I wonder if he/she provided any information
> > about the software -- how they came across it, etc.? As you probably
> > know, Wayne Lichtenberger preserved several volumes of documentation
> > of Illiac program libraries, which seem to include the source code.
> > Al Kossow has scanned them -- see http://bitsavers.org/pdf/illiac/ 
> > ILLIAC/ .
> > I wonder how much overlap there is between this newest donation and  
> > the Lichtenberger materials?
> 
> Hopefully, I'll be able to scan the new additions.
> 
> This is also the first program for ILLIAC II that
> I have heard of. The museum has a nice collection
> of hardware documentation for the II, and some on
> the III and IV which I'd like to scan as well.
> 
> Wayne also saved a dump of the Illiac I drum onto
> paper tape which has been read.
> 
> Someone years ago got far enough into a simulation
> to say that the drum dump was good, but stopped
> returning emails.
> 
> 
> 
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