Simon (computer)
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Simon (computer)
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Simon was a relay-based electromechanical computer, described by Edmund Berkeley in a series of thirteen construction articles in Radio-Electronics magazine, from October 1950. Intended for the educational purpose of demonstrating the concept of a digital computer, it could not be used for any significant practical computation since it had only two bits of memory. A working model was first built by two graduate students at Columbia University for less than US$300 in parts. Some have described it
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