I remember working on a system which was build for the army but never
functional in the pentagon.  There were 3 machines ever made by singer
which I believe later became part of GE.  These machines had an 8 byte
word with each byte being 6 bits + parity.  The memory was only core
memory and we only had 48 k words which today would be 384 KB.  The
system was used in a university setting and many nights of calculations
and printing for missile nozzle burn simulations were done.

One console and card readers.  We had 6 tape drives of 556 bpi density.
Water cooled.
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