Autocoder

Autocoder is a low-level computer programming language of the IBM mainframe to 1401.

The IBM mainframe system in 1401 was the immediate predecessor of the co-developed by Gene Amdahl today's IBM mainframe systems ( / 360, / 370, / 390, 43xx, etc.) and was one of the first usable computer generations. Before that there was only the tabulating machines that have been programmed with retractable pin boards, which was in the clear " stripping drag " - as the hole cards translators ( Lochkartenbeschriftern ) used until the 1980s.

On the downstream systems ( / 360, etc. ) there was a Autocoder emulator, so did not need to be re-written and could be used for a long time the software.

At Honeywell computers there was a similar programming language. Both systems are 6 -bit machine, ie, a location could represent at most 64 different characters. That was enough for the digits to uppercase and then printable special characters.

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