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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Coping with computers, circa 1950s Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) ...

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