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 fir… ...

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.

When thinking of retrocomputing, many of us will imagine machines such as the Commodore 64 or Apple II. These computers were very popular and have plenty of parts and documentation available. Fewer… ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the last three years, WITCH has been lovingly restored to its original glory -- and now it's on display at Bletchley, powered up and working its way through some original 1950s computer programs.

Here's a new version of Jingle Bells you won't hear played in malls, and it's courtesy of one of the oldest computers in history. Turing archive director Jack Copeland and composer Jason Long have ...

BOZEMAN - A 1950s computer, with less memory than a musical greeting card, was donated to the American Computer Museum here. "Here comes the beast," said museum director George Keremedjiev Friday ...

BOZEMAN (AP) - A 1950s computer, with less memory than a musical greeting card, was donated to the American Computer Museum here. "Here comes the beast," said museum director George Keremedjiev ...

By the 1950s, engineers were hooking teletypes up to computers directly, to use them as display devices. The teletypes provided a continuous printed output of a computer session.

ALBANY. The computer programming code used to process non-financial transactions for the state’s $160 billion pension fund dates back to when Hawaii and Alaska first became states, according to ...

Robert wonders about computer-model forecasts and how long they've been in use. Computer models came about in the 1950s Skip to main content Skip to main content ...