19 h 7 août 1944 ans - Harvard Mark I and the IBM automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC)
Description:
Howard Aiken in collaboration with IBM, developed his first fully functional computer, known as the Harvard Mark I. The machine was huge: more than 50 feet (15 metres) long, weighing five tons, and consisting of about 750,000 separate parts, it was mostly mechanical. For input and output it used three paper-tape readers, two card readers, a card punch, and two typewriters. It took between three and six seconds to add two numbers.Ajouté au bande de temps:
Date:
19 h 7 août 1944 ans
Maintenaint
~ Il y a 80 ans