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On Wed, 01 May 2024 14:08:25 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

> What about the IBM 1401, Electrodata 220 or Burroughs B5000?

Not really familiar with those--feel free to mention more details if you 
have them.

Though I do recall, the 1401 didn’t have a “word length” as such: it was a 
“character”-based machine. For example, it could do arbitrary-precision 
arithmetic--it just kept processing digits until it hit a special end-of-
data marker--but obviously this only worked for (fixed-point) addition and 
subtraction. The machine had no hardware support for multiplication or 
division. Or floating-point, for that matter.