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CORE: The Magazine of the Computer History Museum. Computer History Museum: 28–33. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 22, 2016; Hicks, Mar (Fall 2016). "Computer Love: Replicating Social Order Through Early Computer Dating Systems". Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology (10). doi:10.7264/N3NP22QR.
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[14] [15] The new computer had about 460 transistors and about 375 diodes. It cost only $16,250, one-third the price of its predecessor. However, it was also about one-third as fast as the earlier computer. The central computer weighed about 90 pounds (41 kg), [16] the basic system (including printer and stands) about 155 pounds (70 kg). [17]
Operation Match was the first computer dating service in the United States, begun in 1965. The predecessor of this was created in London and was called St. James Computer Dating Service (later to become Com-Pat), started by Joan Ball in 1964. [1] The initial idea was to pair Ivy League men with students at the Seven Sisters women’s colleges. [2]
Ball used a time-shared computer and acquired a matching program that would pair couples based on questionnaire responses. This made Ball's service the first commercially successful computer dating service in either the UK or the US. [2] [3] In 1965, Ball merged her company with another marriage bureau to form Com-Pat, or Computer Dating ...
John Richard Patterson (17 May 1945 – 29 January 1997) [1] was the founder of the UK-based computer dating service Dateline. The Guardian called him "history's most successful Cupid," [2] while The Times characterized Dateline as "probably the largest, longest established and most successful computer dating service in the world."
It used a Macintosh-like GUI. Cost: US$1,295 for a system with a single 880 KB 3.5 in disk drive and 256 KB of RAM. September 1985 UK Amstrad introduced Amstrad PCW 8256/8512, an 8 bit, Z80 based computer system with 256 or 512 KB of RAM, dedicated to word processing and promoted as the alternative of electronic typewriters. PCW was the ...
Launch of IBM System/360 – the first series of compatible computers, reversing and stopping the evolution of separate "business" and "scientific" machine architectures; all models used the same basic instruction set architecture and register sizes, in theory allowing programs to be migrated to more or less powerful models as needs changed.