Number system
Decimal throughout
Mode of operation
Serial by digit
Word size
Sixteen digits and check
Instructions
Sixty-three different three-address operations.
Tapes
Number of tape units: 8
Density:
510 characters an inch.
Speed:
140 inches a second.
Information rate: 70,000 characters a second.
Starting time:
8 thousandths of a second.
Electrostatic memory
Number of words: 2,000
Access time:
8 millionths of a second
Arithmetic
Decimal point procedure: automatic floating or specified
Multiplication time:
31 millionths of a second.
Addition time: 15 millionths of a second.
Complete operations, including
floating decimal point, address
modification:
15,000 a second
Printing
Number of printers: 2
Speed:
18,000 characters a minute
