He fed the positions of standing stones and other features at Stonehenge into an early IBM 7090 computer and used the mainframe to model sun and moon movements.
This made the Model II very practical for applications that needed to manipulate data formatted in octal by other computers (e.g., the IBM 7090).
The 8106 was to have been the principal processor in the 8000 line, designed to bracket the performance of the IBM 7090 system.
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It was announced only a few months after the release of Siemens 2002 (transistorized, but not entirely transistorized) and several months before the first IBM transistorized computer.