Debugging computers in the 1950s sounds like it wasn’t an easy task. That’s one of the interesting facts from this fascinating talk by [Guy Fedorkow] about the Whirlwind, one of the first digital ...

When we talk about a “computer” today, we generally picture an electronic machine that can perform various kinds of mathematical operations, manage its program flow, move data from one place to ...

A recording of one of the world’s oldest computers playing music has been recreated with a Christmas twist. The Ferranti Mark I, housed at Alan Turing’s Computing Machine Laboratory in Manchester, ...

The Harwell Dekatron computer is a 1950s computer having roughly the weight and size of a Hummer H3 and the computing power of a four-function pocket calculator. Having been restored to its original ...

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BOZEMAN (AP) - A 1950s computer, with less memory than a musical greeting card, was donated to the American Computer Museum here.

BOZEMAN (AP) -- A 1950s computer, with less memory than a musical greeting card, was donated to the American Computer Museum here. ''Here comes the beast," said museum director George Keremedjiev ...

The 1950s computer was not for the everyman, unless, of course, that everyman had a government-defense budget to work with. Well in 1956, as it so happens, there was one man-about-town who had the ...

After getting its start in the space program in the 1950s, computer vision technology slowly but steadily worked its way into numerous industrial and commercial applications. According to Jeff Bier, ...