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The GM-NAA I/O input/output system of General Motors and North American Aviation was the first operating system for the IBM 704 computer. [1] [2]It was created in 1956 by Robert L. Patrick of General Motors Research and Owen Mock of North American Aviation. [1]
IBM 7151 Console Control Unit for 7090. The IBM 7090 is a second-generation transistorized version of the earlier IBM 709 vacuum tube mainframe computer that was designed for "large-scale scientific and technological applications".
The first 650 was installed on December 8, 1954 in the controller's department of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company in Boston. [16]The IBM 7070 (signed 10-digit decimal words), announced 1958, was expected to be a "common successor to at least the 650 and the [IBM] 705". [17]
A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...
The EDVAC as installed in Building 328 at the Ballistic Research Laboratory. EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was one of the earliest electronic computers.