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...e with disputed fair-use status removed: [[Image:IBM_logo.svg|thumb|128px|IBM logo]] --> ...1]] [[analog-to-digital converter]] and [[digital-to-analog converter]], [[IBM 1712]] discrete I/O and analog [[multiplexer]], factory floor operator cont ...

...he values being looked up would all be stored in computer memory. In early computers, the number of hours would likely be held on a [[punch card]] and the pay r ...larify|text=early|reason=To what years does "early" refer|date=July 2021}} computers were accumulator machines. Some had two accumulators with distinct names,{{ ...

...gen. A spinoff was the production of a line of civilian mini and mainframe computers for the commercial market. ...puters in the 1960s to calculate taxes, an evaluation between Saab's and [[IBM]]'s machines proved Saab's better. Later the D5s were used to set up the fi ...

[[file:IBM 1401 backplane.jpg|thumb|Wire wrapped backplane of an [[IBM 1401]] computer, introduced in 1959]] ...torized computers, introduced within the late 1950s, were built with the [[IBM Standard Modular System]] that used wire-wrapped backplanes. ...

{{short description|Mid-1960s–late-1980s class of smaller computers}} {{For-text|small modern computers|[[Mini PC]], [[Small form factor PC]], or [[Single-board computer]]}} ...

{{Short description|General Electric mainframe computers}} Originally the operating system for the 600-series computers was [[GECOS]], developed by GE beginning in 1962. GECOS was initially a [[b ...

...stem]];<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-06 |orig-date=1997-08-15 |title=Early Computers at Stanford |url=https://forum-old.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/Early_Comput ...is attached to the top panel. At the left is the [[IBM Electric typewriter|IBM Model B]] [[typewriter]] modified by Soroban Engineering, and the Type 30 C ...

[[File:IBM Z15 mainframe.jpg|thumb|A single-frame IBM z15 mainframe. Larger capacity models can have up to four total frames. Thi ...ainframes. On the left is the [[IBM z Systems]] z13. On the right is the [[IBM LinuxONE]] Rockhopper.]] ...

...3.<ref name="ctss-7094">{{cite web |last1=Van Vleck |first1=Tom |title=The IBM 7094 and CTSS |url=https://www.multicians.org/thvv/7094.html |website=www.m ...ef name="dennis" /> By the summer of 1964 proposals was received from DEC, IBM and GE, after evaluations by the Technical Committee a unanimous decision w ...

.... The prototype was also shown to [[General Mills]] in 1957. An improved [[transistorized]] design<ref name="Working-paper_1961">{{citation |author-first=Fritz Karl ....org/web/20171212193056/http://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/04/science/personal-computers-letter-quality-almost.html |archive-date=December 12, 2017}}</ref>]] ...

....S. Navy]]. Operational in 1951, it was among the first digital electronic computers that operated in real-time for output, and the first that was not simply an It was one of the first computers to calculate in [[Bit-level parallelism|bit-parallel]] (rather than [[seria ...

...000 [[germanium]] transistors. [[Thomas J. Watson Jr.]] ordered all future IBM products to use transistors in their design. From that time on, transistors ...omponents revolutionized electronic signal processing, control systems and computers. |access-date=10 August 2019 |archive-date=30 July 2020 |archive-url=https: ...

{{Short description|Small IBM scientific computer released in 1959}} | predecessor = [[IBM 650]]; [[IBM 610]]; [[IBM 608]] ...

...financial loss, the Control Data Corporation began withdrawing from making computers and sold the affiliated companies of CDC; in 1992, CDC established '''Contr ...ociates, and Remington Rand, 1946–1957 |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computers-and-commerce| publisher=The MIT Press | date=2005-06-01 | isbn=978-0-262-14 ...

...ter code]] was an often-used implementation in early encoding systems, and computers using six-bit and nine-bit bytes were common in the 1960s. These systems of ...956-3|September 1956]].}} during the early design phase for the [[IBM 7030|IBM Stretch]]<ref name="Buchholz_1956_2" /><ref name="Buchholz_1956_3" /><ref n ...

...20, 1935, which makes it one of the oldest operating IT companies after [[IBM]] and before [[Hewlett-Packard]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=History of Fujitsu ...s ([[FM-8]], [[FM-7]], [[FM-Towns]], etc.).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Personal Computers |url=https://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/corporate/history/products/comput ...

.../O circuitry,<ref name="kuck">{{cite book|last1= Kuck|first1= David|title= Computers and Computations, Vol 1|date= 1978|publisher= John Wiley & Sons, Inc.|isbn= [[File:Edvac.jpg|thumb|[[EDVAC]], one of the first stored-program computers]] ...

...bsp;– Historical Interlude: From the Mainframe to the Minicomputer Part 2, IBM and the Seven Dwarfs&nbsp;– They Create Worlds ...as almost three times faster than the next fastest machine of its day, the IBM 7030 Stretch." {{cite book ...

...llous at making programmes and so on, but by God they should not be making computers, any more than they should be making BBC cars or BBC toothpaste"}}</ref> Si ...mann Hauser]], and opted to leave Science of Cambridge to co-found [[Acorn Computers]] with Hauser in 1978. Acorn became a direct competitor to Sinclair's produ ...

...ical computer|mechanical computing machines]], and before that, to [[human computers]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The History of Computing|url=http://mason.gmu.edu/~ ...].<ref>{{Citation|last=Lavington|first=Simon|title=A History of Manchester Computers|year=1998|edition=2|publisher=The British Computer Society|location=Swindon ...