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IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator - Harvard Mark I

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Audience/Grade: College Freshman - College Senior
Discipline(s): Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Special Topic(s): History of Technology
Learning Resource Type: Reference - Article/Document
Media Type:

 WWW
Author(s): IBM
Description: "Length: 51 feet. Height: eight feet. Weight: nearly five tons. An SUV on steroids? No, those dimensions actually describe the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC) -- also known as the Harvard Mark I -- the largest electromechanical calculator ever built and the first automatic digital calculator in the United States."
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Publication Date: 2008
Platform/Format: WWW
Cost: Free
Download URL: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/markI/markI_intro.html
Metadata: IEEE LOM Record
Collection: NEEDS NEEDS