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It was designed and built by IBM. The machine had a fifty-foot long camshaft that synchronized the machine.
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it outlined the architecture of a stored-program computerElectronic storage of programming information and data eliminated the need for the more clumsy methods of programming.
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the computer functioned as a complete system using the Williams tube for memory
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first commercial computer to attract widespread public attention. Although manufactured by Remington Rand
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computer became operational at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton N.J. Contract obliged the builders to share their designs with other research institutes.
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established itself as the first mass-produced computer, with the company selling 450 in one year.
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he first general-purpose, programmable computer built with transistors.
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linked hundreds of radar stations in the United States and Canada in the first large-scale computer communications network.
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SAGE — Semi-Automatic Ground Environment — linked hundreds of radar stations in the United States and Canada in the first large-scale computer communications network
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ainframes were the company´s first transistorized computers. At the top of the line of computers
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it sold for $120,000. One of 50 built, the average PDP-1 included with a cathode ray tube graphic display, needed no air conditioning and required only one operator.
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First real time laboratory data processing. Designed by Wesley Clark at Lincoln Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corp.
