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The IBM 604 Electronic Calculating Punch was the world's first mass-produced electronic calculator along with its predecessor the IBM 603. [1] It was an electronic unit record machine that could perform multiple calculations, including division.
The IBM 602 Calculating Punch, introduced in 1946, was an electromechanical calculator capable of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The 602 was IBM's first machine that did division. (The IBM 601, introduced in 1931, only multiplied.) Like other IBM calculators, it was programmed using a control panel.
1×10 −1: multiplication of two 10-digit numbers by a 1940s electromechanical desk calculator [1] 3×10 −1: multiplication on Zuse Z3 and Z4, first programmable digital computers, 1941 and 1945 respectively; 5×10 −1: computing power of the average human mental calculation [clarification needed] for multiplication using pen and paper
The IBM 603 was adapted as the arithmetic unit in the IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator. It was designed by James W. Bryce, [2] and included circuits patented by A. Halsey Dickenson in 1937. [3] The IBM 603 was developed in Endicott, New York, and announced on September 27, 1946. [4] Full size and miniature vacuum tubes
IBM's electronic (vacuum tube) calculators could perform multiple calulations, including division. The card-programmed calculators used fields on punched cards not to specify the actual operations to be performed on data, but which "microprogram" hard-coded onto the plugboard of the IBM 604 or 605 calculator machine; a set of cards produced ...
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IBM 604: 1948 5,600: First all-electronic calculator for use with unit record equipment. Could multiply and divide data from punched cards. Had 1,250 tubes. IBM CPC: 1949 700: 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