[RayTheRat]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

This was sensationalized by Richard Priors character in Superman where he did the exact same thing to get rich

Hmmm. I'm not a movie guy, but I find it interesting, yet it did actually happen. One instance was at a bank in El Paso, TX.

That's why the Burroughs Medium System was developed. At one time, those systems ran at least half of the banks in the country. Since they were based on a BCD storage and processing system, there were no remainders that would occur in a floating point system. Poof! Problem solved. Everything was in even cents. Rounding took place at the OS level and there was no 9 bazillion numbers to the right of the decimal point...just 2. Made using percentages a little interesting, but they had a special data type for that.

Long time ago.

I figger my Dreadnought's gonna be many times more powerful than the largest of the discrete component Medium System, the B-4900. Sucker cost about $2.5 million in the 80s...and if ya wanted to connect terminals to it, ya had to buy a separate datacom (what we used to call networking, but it was all 2-wire direct connect...up to 9600 bps or modem connect at 1800 baud asynchronous or 4800 baud 4-wire full duplex synchronous.) processor to handle the all of the different datacom devices and keep the load off the main processor. I used to customize the protocols used to "speak" with non-standard devices. It was called NDL or Network Development Language.

Long time ago. Real long.