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An alternate checksum method


To increase reliability of transmission between magnetic tape and core storage on an IBM 7090/7094, blocks or records of data are often assigned a word called a logical checksum. This is a number derived from the block by some simple algorithm and as unique to it as possible. The method most commonly used to form a checksum is to add together every datum in the block by the ACL (add and carry logical) instruction.

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