Assignments

From Tubes to Transistors
 

International Business Machines (1)

         Mainframes



1952 IBM 701 - prod. comp.
1953 IBM 650
1954
1956
1957 IBM 709
1958 IBM 7090 (science)
1958 SAGE, initial install
1959 IBM 1401
???? IBM 7070 (business>

Peripherals
Business equipment
Card punches, sorters
Card calculators
Vac. col. tape drive

I/O chan. (in NORC)
305, 650 RAMAC disk



1403 printer

Languages







FORTRAN

Mauchly and Eckert

         Mainframes
1951 UNIVAC 1 CB tests
1952 Predicts U.S. election

Peripherals

Languages

Some Lecture Notes

Applications
- Commercial
- Scientific
- Defense

Technology

Mainframes
Minicomputers

Networks

Software

Notes

1. "History of IBM," http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/history_intro.html (International Business Machines, accessed 2004 Oct 21). This is a timeline by decade.

Bibliography

Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray. Computer: A History of the Information Machine (Basic Books, 1996).

Paul E. Ceruzzi, A History of Modern Computing, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003).