Debugging computers in the 1950s sounds like it wasn’t an easy task. That’s one of the interesting facts from this fascinating talk by [Guy Fedorkow] about the Whirlwind, one of the first ...

The AN/FSQ-7 was an achievement unto itself, for it was the second real-time computer with an electronic graphical display in history. The first was the Whirlwind I, the 1950 precursor to the AN ...

But before even those transistor-based computers is a retrocomputing era rarely touched on: the era of programmable vacuum tube machines. [Mike] has gone back to the 1950s with this computer which ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Considered as one of the most conservative decades in recent memory the 1950s were a time ...

Zuse fled the German capital after the defeat of Nazi Germany and later released the world's first commercial digital computer, the Z4, in 1950, according to O'Regan. 1941: Atanasoff and his ...

The Harwell Dekatron computer is a 1950s computer having roughly the weight and size of a Hummer H3 and the computing power of a four-function pocket calculator. Having been restored to its ...

They're typically the first one to start when a computer is turned on, and all subsequent programs are launched by the OS. They got their start in the 1950s, as computers became more widespread ...

The computer application that oversees portions of the retirement system, such as years of service and employee salaries, was built for the pension fund in 1987 and uses code from the late 1950s ...