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jan 2, 1952 - IBM 701 Defense Calculator

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The IBM 701 Defense Calculator (1952) was IBM's first production computer. It was designed primarily for scientific calculation and included "microsecond circuits installed at critical locations ... to send electrical impulses from one unit to another at a speed faster than one-millionth of a second"

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jan 2, 1952
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~ 73 years ago

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