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DEC 36-bit Computers - Information on DEC 36-bit computers.
Joe Smith's PDP-10 - History of 36-bit computing.
Nocrew's PDP-10 Stuff - PDP-10 software and links to other PDP-10 sites.
PDP-10 Software Archive - PDP-10 commercial software covered by the hobbyist license.

36-bit word length - Many early computers aimed at the scientific market had a 36-bit word length. This word length was just long enough to represent positive and negative integers to an accuracy of ten decimal digits (35 bits would have been the minimum).
Deep Color - Deep Color refers to the use of 30-bit, 36-bit, and 48-bit color in displays. This extra bit depth is required to reduce posterization with extended gamuts such as xvYCC, and therefore has been included as an optional part of the HDMI 1.
UTF-9 and UTF-18 - UTF-9 and UTF-18 (9- and 18-bit Unicode Transformation Format, respectively) were two April Fool's Day RFC joke specifications for encoding unicode on systems where the nonet (nine bit group) is a better fit for the native word size than the octet, such as the 36-bit PDP-10. Both encodings were specified in RFC 4042, written by Mark Crispin (inventor of IMAP) and released on April 1 2005.
IBM 738 - The IBM 738 was IBM's first core memory unit to use transistorized sense amplifier circuits. Designed in 1955 for the IBM 704, it used vacuum tubes for all other circuits, and provided a capacity of 32768 - 36-bit words.
S-1 Lisp - S-1 Lisp was an Lisp implementation written in Lisp for the 36-bit pipelined S-1 Mark IIA supercomputer computer architecture, which has 32 megawords of RAM.