Happy Birthday to Baby, the first Programmable Computer!!!
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I don’t know when it was but I once read that the Carl Zeiss Company was one of the first purchasers of the Univac Computer.
Before that, they would hire a large number of math teachers to do the complex calculations necessary for lens design.
And it sounded better because it used tubes!
“Computer” was once a job title. For people.
Time flies - daughter bought me a 2 TB outboard hard drive for backup storage for Father’s Day - I can remember when having 32K of working storage on a Radio Shack computer was a real luxury.....
What about UNIVAC (Roman numeral) I at the University of Pennsylvania that same year ???
We used UNIVAC II in the USAF in 1971...
My brother had an Altair 8800. You would program it by toggling the switches on the front panel.
It may still be at my folks house, but it got dropped at some point and is heavily damaged, so no more collector value.
Beats a slide rule and a CRC book any day!
That’s the British version. There were computers before that.