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… ...

When IBM released its729 Magnetic Tape Unit in 1959, Eisenhower was the sitting president. Alaska and Hawaii had just been admitted to the union as full-fledge states. No human had yet been in ...

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… ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 first computer was mechanical, and it started a revolution. The computer has been around for a long time, ... U.S. Airforce, and U.S. Army, among others, in the 1950s. By the 1960s, ...

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 ...

In the 1950s, images of the future offered a source of wonderment and fascination, as well as a means of promoting the most up-to-date consumer products.

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 ...

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 ...