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| release date = {{Start date and age|1946}} ...machines]] designed for automated preparation of [[punched card]]s. Others in the series included the [[#IBM 513|IBM 513]] & [[#IBM 514|IBM 514]] Reprodu ...

[[File:Edvac.jpg|thumb|275px|The EDVAC as installed in Building 328 at the [[Ballistic Research Laboratory]]]] ...e School of Electrical Engineering]] at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The History of Computing at BRL|url ...

...arnoff]], the longtime leader of [[RCA]] and [[NBC]], and had headquarters in [[West Windsor Township, New Jersey]], though with a [[Princeton, New Jerse ...y|Princeton]] vicinity was laid just before the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] in 1941. That facility, later Sarnoff Corporation headquarters, was the site ...

[[File:Punch cards in tray for Pilot ACE computer built at the National Physical Laboratory c. 19 ...Turing completed the ambitious design in late 1945, having had experience in the years prior with the secret [[Colossus computer|Colossus]] computer at ...

...ravel to the [[United States]] for the [[Moore School Lectures]] in Summer 1946. ...ut to keep the tables small enough, interpolation would be needed and this in turn requires multiplication, though perhaps with less precision. ...

...ectronic data processing machine] Patent US3197624A filed in 1954, granted in 1965, Jerrier Haddad, Richard K Richards, Rochester Nathaniel, Jr Harold D ...were IBM’s high-end computers until the arrival of the [[IBM System/360]] in 1964.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=The IBM 700 Series: Computing Comes to ...

...e of the earliest general-purpose [[electromechanical]] [[computer]]s used in the war effort during the last part of [[World War II]]. ...goal of British inventor [[Charles Babbage]] for his [[analytical engine]] in 1837. ...

...]], so they can be spun to make them coast. The trackball's buttons may be in similar positions to those of a mouse, or configured to suit the user. ...ch of "cad workstation" doesn't produce a single image showing a trackball in several pages' worth of results.|date=December 2023}} Before the advent of ...

...an [[electromechanical computer]] built by [[IBM]]. Its design was started in late 1944 and it operated from January 1948 to August 1952. It had many of ...ward H. Aiken]] at [[Harvard University]]. The machine, formally dedicated in August 1944, was widely known as the [[Harvard Mark I]].<ref>{{cite web |ti ...

...omputer|UNIVAC I|university vaccination in Bangladesh|COVID-19 vaccination in Bangladesh#University and school vaccination}} | Laboratory for Advanced Research, [[Remington Rand]] (1946–1955) ...

| caption = EDSAC I in June 1948 | memory = 512 17-bit words, upgraded in 1952 to 1024 17-bit words ...

...2.9 million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US-GDP|2.9|1960|r=0}}&nbsp;million in {{Inflation-year|US}}) or could be rented for $63,500 a month ({{Inflation| ...ot stated--> |date=n.d. |publisher=IBM |access-date=April 16, 2022}}</ref> In 1961, the IBM 7090 famously employed a speech synthesis program to sing "[[ ...

| caption = Replica of the Baby at the [[Science and Industry Museum]] in [[Castlefield]], Manchester ...series of seven tall metal racks filled with electronic equipment standing in front of a brick wall. Signs above each rack describe the functions carried ...

...sus dedication.jpg|thumb|A UNIVAC I at the [[United States Census Bureau]] in 1951]] ...which later became part of [[Sperry Corporation|Sperry]], now [[Unisys]]). In the years before successor models of the UNIVAC I appeared, the machine was ...

...r the Dutch [[ophthalmologist]] [[Herman Snellen]] who developed the chart in 1862 as a measurement tool for the acuity formula developed by his professo ...2017}}</ref> Snellen's charts published in 1862 used alphanumeric capitals in the 5×5 grid. The original chart shows A, C, E, G, L, N, P, R, T, 5, V, Z, ...

...typography, the letter "v" in "von" should never be in uppercase — except in titles of works (or at the beginning of a sentence). See the disambiguatio ...EDVAC]]'',<ref name ="FirstDraftReport" /> written by [[John von Neumann]] in 1945, describing designs discussed with [[John Mauchly]] and [[J. Presper E ...

...10 (10/10), and December 12 (12/12) all occur on the same day of the week in the year. ...r of days ([[Modular arithmetic|modulo 7]]) between that date and the date in question to arrive at the day of the week. The technique applies to both th ...