I learned of this model's significance from a little call-out in Peter Salus' excellent history of UNIX: "The IBM 7030, incidentally, had 64-bit words and 8-bit bytes."
https://archive.org/details/aquartercenturyofunixpeterh.salus_201910/page/n31/mode/2up
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