Wednesday, March 07, 2012

60 years later: The IAS Princeton Computer, 1952

The IAS Computer, 1952
With the machine half-built, early programmers began to write software to simulate hydrogen bomb explosions, follow genetic mutations, predict the weather and examine the life cycle of stars.
It used about 2300 tubes in its circuitry
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