IBM 1800 Data Acquisition and Control System
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title:
IBM 1800 Data Acquisition and Control System
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The IBM 1800 Data Acquisition and Control System (DACS) was a process control variant of the IBM 1130 with two extra instructions, extra I/O capabilities, 'selector channel like' cycle-stealing capability and three hardware index registers. IBM announced and introduced the 1800 Data Acquisition and Control System on November 30, 1964, describing it as "a computer that can monitor an assembly line, control a steel-making process or analyze the precise status of a missile during test firing."
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Process control variant of the IBM 1130 minicomputer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1800_Data_Acquisition_and_Control_System
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2004-03-31T04:46:54Z
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2024-08-28T17:07:52Z
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