1. History of the Computer Industry
... hole punch system did the bulk of the world's business computing and a good portion of computing work in science. By the late 1930's engineers at IBM collaborated with Horward Hathaway Aiken and begin construction of a large automatic digital computer. That machine was called the Harvard Mark I. It handled 23 digit numbers and could perform all four arithmetic operations. It also had ... ...
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