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 ...

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 ...

In the late 1950s, an anonymous IBM employee made a lady from the pages of Esquire come to life on the screen of a $238 million military computer.

In the 1950s, a Broadway play tackled the fear that “electronic brains” would automate humans out of jobs.

What computers looked like in the 1950s and 60s (hint: HUGE) Dr. William F. Atchison, head of the electronic computer center at Georgia Tech, on March 29, 1959.

So as you may have noticed from last episode, computers keep getting faster and faster, and by the start of the 1950s they had gotten so fast that it often took longer to manually load programs ...

The 1950s computer was not for the everyman, unless, of course, that everyman had a government-defense budget to work with. Well in 1956, as it so happens, there was one man-about-town who had the ...

Who’s smarter: humans or machines? Find out in the ’50s romantic comedy “The Desk Set,” the first show of Summer Place Theatre’s season. The production runs from Frida… ...

In 1950, computer scientist Alan Turing famously proposed what we now call the Turing test of artificial intelligence, which says that a machine might be “thinking” if it can pass as human in ...

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 ...

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 ...