dec 6, 1944 - Harvard Mark 1 (RELAY)

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Started as the Automatic Sequence Control Calculator (ASCC) at IBM's Endicott lab with Aiken (developed 1939-1943)
Presented by IBM to Harvard and renamed Mark I (1943)
2,200 counter wheels
3,300 relays
51 ft long
8 ft hight
5 tons
Belongs in Relay TEch with Complex Number Calculator (Bell Labs), Z1, and Heath-Robinson(Bletchley)
(from text book)
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magnetic drum storage
http://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/tauschek-patents-magnetic-drum-storage/
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digital
Hopper comes in 1944
(Computer Pioneers)
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The way that Aiken fails to credit IBM causes conflict with Watson Sr.
(Bit by Bit)

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