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CALDIC (the California Digital Computer) was an electronic digital computer built with the assistance of the Office of Naval Research at the University of California, Berkeley between 1951 and 1955 to assist and enhance research being conducted at the university with a platform for high-speed computing.
Sir George G. Macfarlane CB, engineer, scientific administrator, public servant, Director from 1962-7 of the Royal Radar Establishment (wartime scientist working on radar), and designed the Royal Radar Establishment Automatic Computer (RREAC) - the first transistor digital computer
She retired from full-time work after marrying Moore School lecturer Dr. Arthur Burks, a mathematician who served as one of the principal engineers in the construction of the ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic digital computer, built at the Moore School between 1943 and 1946.
In 1988 he wrote a biography of John Vincent Atanasoff, the Iowa State College professor who invented the first electronic digital computer in 1939.
It follows the history of "information machines" from Charles Babbage's Difference Engine through Herman Hollerith's Tabulating Machines to the invention of the modern electronic digital computer.
The "game board" is actually a very simple Digi-Comp digital computer with memory switches (the three-lobed levers) that 'remember' what was done & their starting position is the program that plays Nim.
Correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to the Honeywell v. Sperry Rand trial and recognition of John V. Atanasoff as the inventor of the electronic digital computer.
Allen introduced the world's first digital organs (and first digital musical instrument product) in 1971 – the Allen Digital Computer Organ.
The story of the early history of the computer museums as The Digital Computer Museum at Digital Equipment Corp. in Maynard MA (1975), The Computer Museum Marlboro MA (1979-1984), moving to Boston (1984-1999) prior to its move to Silicon Valley as The Computer Museum History Center (1995-2000) and becoming the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA (2000) is given in Gordon Bell's Microsoft Technical Report MSR-TR-2011-44, Out of a Closet: The Early Years of the Computer Museums.
The first successful numerical prediction was performed using the ENIAC digital computer in 1950 by a team composed of American meteorologists Jule Charney, Philip Thompson, Larry Gates, and Norwegian meteorologist Ragnar Fjørtoft and applied mathematician John von Neumann.
Mauchly's proposal for building an electronic digital computer using vacuum tubes, many times faster and more accurate than the differential analyzer for computing ballistics tables for artillery, caught the interest of the Moore School's Army liaison, Lieutenant Herman Goldstine, and on April 9, 1943 was formally presented in a meeting at Aberdeen Proving Ground to director Colonel Leslie Simon, Oswald Veblen, and others.
The invention was conceived at the request of the United States Air Force to come up with a more flexible and secure way of storing the targeting constants in the Atlas E/F ICBM's airborne digital computer.
The museum also includes the world's oldest working digital computer (the Harwell Dekatron / WITCH), machines from the 1960s such as the Elliott 803 and 905, an ICL 2966 mainframe from the 1980s, a wide range of analogue computers, a hands-on retrocomputing gallery, and several restoration projects such as the PDP-8 and the PDP-11-based air traffic control system from London Terminal Control Centre at West Drayton near London.
Mr. Chow, working for the Arma Division of the American Bosch Arma Corporation, pioneered the use of digital computers in missile, satellite and spacecraft guidance systems, leading the design of the United States Air Force Atlas E/F ICBM (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile) all-inertial guidance system and guidance computer, the first production airborne digital computer.