Whirlwind I
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whirlwind-i-189-17930696
title:
Whirlwind I
text:
Whirlwind I was a Cold War-era vacuum-tube computer developed by the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory for the U.S. Navy. Operational in 1951, it was among the first digital electronic computers that operated in real-time for output, and the first that was not simply an electronic replacement of older mechanical systems. It was one of the first computers to calculate in bit-parallel, and was the first to use magnetic-core memory. Its development led directly to the Whirlwind II design used as the b
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Vacuum tube computer developed by the MIT
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlwind_I
date created:
2002-08-30T16:36:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T11:07:20Z
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