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NPL Pilot Ace Completed
It was designed to compact 800 vacuum tubes into a 12 foot space. -
Squee: The Robotic Squirrel
It was designed to go and collect "nuts" (which were tennis balls) and drag them back to It's nest. It was described to be 75% reliable and only worked in a very dark room. It was invented by Edmund Berkley. -
Grace Hopper Completes A-0
In 1952 Grace Murray Hopper competed in translating computer code for the UNIVAC 1 into English words so people could understand the code. -
IBM ships it's Model 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine
Inside IBM, they were known as "Defense Calculators". It took 15,000$ a month to keep. Arthur Samuels programmed the first autonomous checkers game. The 701 was IBM's introduction to large scale computer production. -
Alan Turing found dead at age 42
In 1954 Alan Turing was found dead in his bed with a cyanide-laced apple sitting on his nightstand. He was known for multiple things such as his code breaking skills. He was able to decode the German ENIGMA encryption machine. -
English Electric DEUCE Introduced
Alan Turing's ACE, called DEUCE or (Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine) was mostly used for science and engineering problems and a few commercial applications. 30 of them were produced and one was even sent to Australia. -
RAMAC
IBM created one of the first magnetic disk storage that was shipped to Zellarback Paper in San Francisco. It had 50 magnetic disks that rotated and could hold about 5 million characters of data.
