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As a young consultant programmer in the UK in 1964 I programmed the payroll system for a manufacturing company on a Univac 1004. My previous project was an invoicing system on a British clone of the RCA 501 with 48K of memory (wow!) so having only 1K and a limit of 31 instructions presented some challenges. I think I was able to get the payroll system into five programs (or plugboards) with the final program calculating how many five and one pound notes, half-crowns, shillings, etc would be required for each worker's pay packet (employees were assumed not to have bank accounts). I remember how much fun the programming was!

Jun 11, 2023, 2:17:32 PM

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