One-of-a-kind computers One-of-a-kind computers The ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) was the first computer designed in Britain; it was designed by Alan Turing in 1946. ...more on Wikipedia about "ACE (computer)"
The analytical engine, an important step in the history of computers, is the design of a mechanical modern general-purpose computer by the British professor of mathematics Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837, but Babbage continued to work on the design until his death in 1871. Because of financial, political, and legal issues, the engine was never actually built. General-purpose computers that were logically comparable to the analytical engine did not come into existence until about 100 years later. ...more on Wikipedia about "Analytical engine"
The APEXC, or All Purpose Electronic X-Ray Computer was designed by Andrew D. Booth at Birkbeck College, London, in the early 1950s. From 1943 on, he started working on the determination of crystal structures using X-ray diffraction data. The computations involved were extremely tedious and there was ample incentive for automating the process. In 1947, along with his collaborator and future spouse Kathleen Britten, he spent a few months with von Neumann's team, which was the leading edge in computer research at the time. Booth designed an electromechanical computer, the ARC, in the late 1940s. Later on, they built an experimental electronic computer named SEC ( Simple Electronic Computer), and finally the APEC (All-Purpose Electronic Computer) series. ...more on Wikipedia about "APEXC"
ASCI Blue Mountain is a supercomputer that is installed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The computer was a collaboration between Silicon Graphics Corporation and Los Alamos Lab. ...more on Wikipedia about "ASCI Blue Mountain"
ASCI Blue Pacific is a supercomputer that is installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA. The computer was a collaboration between IBM Corporation and Lawerence Livermore Lab. ...more on Wikipedia about "ASCI Blue Pacific"
ASCI Purple is a supercomputer that will be installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA. The computer is a collaboration between IBM Corporation and Lawrence Livermore Lab. It was installed in July 2005. The contract for this computer along with the Blue Gene/L supercomputer was worth US $290 million. ...more on Wikipedia about "ASCI Purple"
ASCI Red or ASCI Option Red, is a supercomputer installed at Sandia National Laboratories, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ...more on Wikipedia about "ASCI Red"
Thor's Hammer is the first supercomputer using the Red Storm architecture. It is installed at Sandia National Laboratories, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The project is a collaboration between Cray Inc. and Sandia Labs. The machine was installed in 2004. ...more on Wikipedia about "ASCI Thor's Hammer"
ASCI White is a supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. ...more on Wikipedia about "ASCI White"
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the first electronic digital computer ** ** and was a major step in the history of computing . It was built by Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry at Iowa State University during 1937-42. The Atanasoff-Berry Computer represented several innovations in computing, including a binary system of arithmetic, parallel processing, regenerative memory, and a separation of memory and computing functions. It is sometimes referred to by its initials, ABC. John Vincent Atanasoff was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President George H. W. Bush in a Ceremony at the White House on November 13, 1990. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atanasoff Berry Computer"
The AVIDAC or Argonne Version of the Institute's Digital Automatic Computer, an early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory, was based on the IAS architecture developed by John von Neumann. As with all computers of its era, it was a one of a kind machine that could not exchange programs with other computers (even other IAS machines). It began operation in January, 1953. ...more on Wikipedia about "AVIDAC"
BARK (Binär Automatisk ReläKalkylator) was completed in February 1950 at a cost of 400.000 Swedish kronor. BARK was a 32 bit machine and could complete an addition in 150 ms and a multiplication in 250 ms. It had a memory with 50 registers and 100 constants. It was later expanded to the double memory. BARK was built using standard phone relays. ...more on Wikipedia about "BARK"
BESK (Binär Elektronisk SekvensKalkylator, Swedish for "Binary Electronic Sequence Calculator") was Sweden's first computer. It was developed by Matematikmaskinnämnden and during a short time it was the fastest computer in the world. The computer was completed in 1953. The technology behind BESK was later continued with FACIT EDB. A copy of BESK called SMIL was made for the University of Lund, and a copy of BESK made in Denmark was called DASK. ...more on Wikipedia about "BESK"
BINAC, the Binary Automatic Computer, was an early electronic computer designed for Northrop Aircraft Company by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation in 1949. ...more on Wikipedia about "BINAC" You are visiting shortopedia shortopedia
The BRLESC I (Ballistic Research Laboratories Electronic Scientific Computer) was a first-generation electronic computer built by the US Army Ballistics Research Laboratory (BRL) at Aberdeen Proving Ground with assistance from the NBS, and was designed to take over the computational workload of EDVAC and ORDVAC, which themselves were successors of ENIAC. It began operation in 1962. ...more on Wikipedia about "BRLESC"
Columbia is a supercomputer built by Silicon Graphics for NASA. ...more on Wikipedia about "Columbia (supercomputer)"
CSIRAC (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer), originally known as CSIR Mk I, was Australia's first digital computer, and the fifth stored program computer in the world and presently the oldest intact (albeit inoperable) digital computer in the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "CSIRAC"
The CYCLONE, an early computer built in 1959 by Iowa State University, was based on the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) architecture developed by John von Neumann. As with all computers of its era, it was a one of a kind machine that could not exchange programs with other computers (even other IAS machines). ...more on Wikipedia about "CYCLONE"
The DASK was the first computer in Denmark. It was commissioned in 1955, designed and constructed by the Regnecentralen, and began operation in September 1957. DASK is an acronym for Dansk Algoritmisk Sekvens Kalkulator or Danish Algorithmic Sequence Calculator. Regnecentralen almost didn't allow the name, as the word dask means "slap" in Danish. In the end however, it was named so as it fit the pattern of the name BESK, the Swedish computer which provided the initial architecture for DASK. ...more on Wikipedia about "DASK"
DATAR, short for Digital Automated Tracking and Resolving, was a pioneering computerized battlefield information system developed by the Canadian Navy in partnership with Ferranti Canada in the early 1950s. It combined data sent to it from various ships in order to provide commanders with an "overall view", allowing them to coordinate attacks on submarines and aircraft. The system proved too costly for the post-war Navy to develop alone, and when the Royal Navy and US Navy declined to share in the program it was ended. Oddly the US then decided they needed just such a system, and developed the Naval Tactical Data System to fill this role. ...more on Wikipedia about "DATAR"
D2 was a concept and prototype computer designed by Datasaab in Linköping, Sweden. It was built with discrete transistors and completed in 1960. Its purpose was to investigate the feasibility of building a computer for use in an aircraft to assist with navigation. This military side of the project was known as SANK (Saab's Automatiska Navigations-Kalkylator), and D2 was the name for its civilian application. ...more on Wikipedia about "Datasaab D2"
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Deep Blue was a chess playing computer developed by IBM. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deep Blue"
A difference engine is a historical, mechanical special-purpose computer designed to tabulate polynomial functions. Since logarithmic and trigonometric functions can be approximated by polynomials, such a machine is more general than it appears at first. ...more on Wikipedia about "Difference engine"
The DRTE Computer was a transistorized computer built at the Defense Research Telecommunications Establishment (DRTE), part of the Canadian Defense Research Board. It was one of the earlier fully transistorized machines, running in prototype form in 1957, and fully developed form in 1960. Although the performance was quite good, equal to that of contemporary machines like the PDP-1, no commercial vendors ever took up the design, and the only potential sale to the Canadian Navy's Pacific Naval Laboratories, fell through. The machine eventually ended up on display at the Canadian National Museum of Science and Technology, but the display was later removed and it's current fate is unknown. ...more on Wikipedia about "DRTE Computer"
DYSEAC was the Second Standards Electronic Automatic Computer. (See SEAC.) ...more on Wikipedia about "DYSEAC" The Ultimate http://www.shortopedia.com Machine.
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