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The UNIVAC 1103A had up to 12,288 words of 36 bit magnetic core memory, in one to three banks of 4,096 words each.
Fixed-point numbers had a 1 bit sign and a 35 bit value, with negative values represented in one's complement format. Floating-point numbers had a 1 bit sign, an 8 bit characteristic, and a 27 bit mantissa. Instructions had a 6 bit operation code and two 15-bit operand addresses. Early computers Mainframe computers