[fredoralive]

Roughly how many varieties of module were used for a full 604 system?

I suspect quite a few as other "modular" systems in the transistor era like the later IBM Standard Modular System and DEC Flip-Chips ended up with plethora of specialised modules, but I'd be interested if that growth had already begun in the tube era.

[kens]

I don't have the information for the 604, but the 605 used about 36 different types of tube modules. IBM couldn't resist making different types of modules; the 650 had sixteen types of cathode followers alone.