Harvard Mark I, or IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), was one of the earliest general-purpose electromechanical computers used in the...
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Computer Heritage Pilot Study: Deliveries of Ferranti Mark I and Mark I Star computers". Computer Conservation Society. Archived from the original on 11...
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of computers to be designed with greatly reduced power consumption. The first commercially available stored-program computer, the Ferranti Mark I, contained...
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The Mark 1, and later the Mark 1A, Fire Control Computer was a component of the Mark 37 Gun Fire Control System deployed by the United States Navy during...
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Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus used...
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Lavington 1998, p. 25. Our Computer Heritage Pilot Study: Deliveries of Ferranti Mark I and Mark I Star computers., Computer Conservation Society, archived...
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Analytical engine (category Computer-related introductions in 1837)
minutes". By comparison the Harvard Mark I could perform the same task in just six seconds (though it's debatable that computer is Turing complete; the ENIAC...
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The Ferranti Mark 1, also known as the Manchester Electronic Computer in its sales literature, and thus sometimes called the Manchester Ferranti, was produced...
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Grace Hopper (category American computer programmers)
one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer. She is credited with writing the first computer manual, "A Manual of Operation for the Automatic...
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aspects of driver assist and autonomous driving. The case for the Mark I computer was designed by Bel Geddes at IBM's expense, and put in place just...
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