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  2. Harvard Mark I - Wikipedia

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    The Harvard Mark I, or IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), was one of the earliest general-purpose electromechanical computers used in the war effort during the last part of World War II. One of the first programs to run on the Mark I was initiated on 29 March 1944 [1] by John von Neumann.

  3. List of vacuum-tube computers - Wikipedia

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    1 Sweden's first computer and was the fastest computer in the world for a brief time IBM NORC: 1954 1 Built by IBM for the US Navy Bureau of Ordnance, it was the first supercomputer and the most powerful computer in the world for at least 2 years. 9,800 tubes in logic.

  4. Manchester Mark 1 - Wikipedia

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    The Manchester Mark 1 was dismantled and scrapped in August 1950, [28] replaced a few months later by the first Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercially available general-purpose computer. [1] Between 1946 and 1949, the average size of the design team working on the Mark 1 and its predecessor, the Baby, had been about four people.

  5. Vacuum-tube computer - Wikipedia

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    Combined an IBM 604 with other unit record machines to carry out a sequence of calculations defined by instructions on a deck of punched cards. Ferranti Mark 1: 1951 9: First commercially available stored program computer, based on Manchester Mark 1. UNIVAC I: 1951 46: First mass-produced stored-program computer. Used delay-line memory. LEO I ...

  6. Williams tube - Wikipedia

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    The Manchester Mark 1, which used Williams tubes, was successfully commercialised as the Ferranti Mark 1. Some early computers in the United States also used Williams tubes, including the IAS machine (originally designed for Selectron tube memory), the UNIVAC 1103, IBM 701, IBM 702 and the Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC).

  7. Mark Dean designed the first IBM PC while breaking racial ...

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    Today we take a look at the life and work of Mark Dean. Dr. Mark Dean, an African-American computer scientist and engineer, spent over 30 years at IBM pursuing the Next Big Thing.

  8. Timeline of computing 1950–1979 - Wikipedia

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    The oldest known recordings of computer generated music were played by the Ferranti Mark 1 computer. The Mark 1 is a commercial version of the Manchester Mark 1 machine from the University of Manchester. The music program was written by Christopher Strachey. 1951: US EDVAC (electronic discrete variable computer). The first computer to use ...

  9. IBM releases its first personal computer on This Day in ... - AOL

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    It's difficult to imagine life today without computers, but the personal computer was barely a reality just 33 years ago. On August 12th, 1981, IBM introduced their first PC model, also known as ...