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"Genesis of the computer". Flashback 1950. Computerworld; Oral history interview with Isaac Levin Auerbach Oral history interview by Nancy B. Stern, 10 April 1978. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Auerbach recounts his experiences at Electronic Control Company (later the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company) during 1947–49.
The Cover Art Archive is a joint project between the Internet Archive and ... spanning 50 years of computer history in terabytes of computer magazines and ...
Although RCA was noted for their pioneering work in transistors, RCA decided to build a vacuum tube computer instead of a transistorized computer. [1] It was the largest vacuum tube computer of its time in 1956, occupying 20,000 sq ft (1,900 m 2 ) of floor space with up to 30,000 tubes, 70,000 diodes , and 35,000 magnetic cores . [ 2 ]
The History of Computing Project; ... and archive historical computer software and manuals from minicomputers and mainframes of the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s
The Computer History Museum claims to house the largest and most significant collection of computing artifacts in the world. [a] This includes many rare or one-of-a-kind objects such as a Cray-1 supercomputer as well as a Cray-2, Cray-3, the Utah teapot, the 1969 Neiman Marcus Kitchen Computer, an Apple I, and an example of the first generation of Google's racks of custom-designed web servers. [7]
SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer) demonstrated at US NBS in Washington, DC – was the first fully functional stored-program computer in the U.S. May 1950: UK The Pilot ACE computer, with 800 vacuum tubes, and mercury delay lines for its main memory, became operational on 10 May 1950 at the National Physical Laboratory near London.
Archive-it Service: The aim of the project is to collect and to archive digital documents and websites having "cultural interest" for Italian history and culture, according with the principles of the national legal deposit law. The Archive-it Collection is publicly available. Web Archiving Project (WARP), The National Diet Library, Japan [42 ...
[22] [23] The project, Swiss Rolls, Tea and the Electronic Office: A History of LEO, the First Business Computer, aims to bring together, preserve, archive and digitise a range of LEO Computers artefacts, documents and personal memories to share the largely unknown story of LEO with a new audience.