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Pilot ACE
Automatic Computing Engine, 800 vacuum tube, 352 word memory, mercury delay lines.
Inventors: Alan Turing, James H Wilkinson, Donald Davies, Harry Huskey, and Mike Woodger.
This computer was programmed to calculate floating point arithmetic. It paved the way for future scientific calculations. -
Pilot ACE
The pilot Automatic Computing Engine, 800 vacuum tubes, 342 32 bit word memory, mercury delay lines.
Inventors: Alan Turing, James H Wilkinson, Donald Davies, Harry Huskey
Used for science and engineering problems (floating-point arithmetic).
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Computer History of the 1950's
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CSIRAC
2000 Valve-driven computer. 768 20 bit word storage capacity.
Inventors: Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard
First in the world to play digital music, a very prominent genre these days! -
CSIRAC
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer: 2000 valve driven computer, mercury acoustic delay lines, 768 20 bit word memory.
Inventors: Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard
The first computer used to play computerized music, a very prominent genre today -
Whirlwind I
vacuum tube computer, magnetic core memory, 5000 vacuum tubes.
Inventor: MIT, Jay Forrester
US Air Defense System, used to track aircrafts. -
Dot Matrix Printer
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Dot Matrix Printer
Impact printer containing pints that that strike an ink-coated ribbon.
Inventor: IBM
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COBOL
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COBOL
Common Business Oriented Language
Inventors: Howard Bromberg, Norman Discount, Vernon Reeves, Jean E Same, William Selden, Gertrude Tierney, Grace Hopper
An English-like computer programming language, primarily used business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.