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An early, electronic, stored-program, digital computer designed and built under the leadership of John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

Photos: computer, von Neumann, others - From Jason Johnson

Processor structure and picture

Smithsonian Photo

Some pictures

Some anonymous details

Bibliography

Ed Regis. "Good Time Johnny",  In Who Got Einstein's Office?  (Addison-Wesley, 1987), 97-122.

This is the chapter on John von Neumann. It contains several interesting stories about von Neumann and his constructing one of the first stored-program computers at the otherwise quite platonic Institute for Advanced Study.

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