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Honeywell 400 Series Hardware Manual page 101

Punched card subsystems

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CORE STORE
DEMAND PROCESSING
ERROR
HOPPER
IGNORE CHARACTER
IN TE RRUP T
INTERRUP TION
JOGGLE (TO)
MEDIUM
MISFEED
NUMERIC CODE
OPERATION CODE
OVERFLOW
' crepancies.
A control character used to indicate that errors in
data preparation or transmission have been detected,
and a certain predetermined amount of the most
recently occurring data should be ignored.
A signal, condition or device that causes an interrup-
tion.
A suspension of the Operation of a sequence of
instructions followed by starting another sequence or
reverting to the one suspended, as for example in
priority processing.
To agitate a deck of punched cards by hand to bring
them into alignment before placing in the hopper.
The material in (or on) which a specific physical
variable may
represent data, also the physical
quantity which may be varied. Any agency or means
for representing data.
The failure
of a punched card to pass through
a machine in the manner specified.
This may
result in holes being incorrectly sensed or punched
or in damage to cards.
A code the character set of which contains digits
only.
A code used to represent the. elementary operations
of a computer.
.
In an arithmetical operation, the generation of a
result which is too large for the range of number
representation.
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