From: "Scott Ford" <scott_j_f...@yahoo.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 2:47 AM
God, I remember half word instructions because I only had 16k to work in ..probably the 1401 guys had less
Many early machines had less. Pilot ACE and DEUCE had 384 words -- and of those, only 256 words could be used for instructions.