[SIGCIS-Members] Older computers (1940-1950)

[Pierre Mounier]

Of course it all depends on the definition of a "computer". The list  
below encompasses many kinds of digital machines, including non- 
electronic and non-stored programmed devices.
If we include the ABC, we may as well add Couffignal's computer, an  
electronic, parallel calculator programmed from an external disk.  
Developed in Paris in 1947-1950, it never went beyond lab experiments.  
Its only historical significance is its being a model of inept project  
management. We still keep the fossil at Musee des Arts & Metiers.
But then the IBM 603 and 604 could even better qualify for the list?
Best,
Pierre

Pierre Mounier-Kuhn
CNRS & Univ. Paris-Sorbonne
http://pups.paris-sorbonne.fr/pages/aff_livre.php?Id=838
L'informatique en France, de la 2e guerre mondiale au Plan Calcul.  
L'emergence d'une science



Le 15 nov. 12 à 02:44, Info @ IT History Society a écrit :

> Are there any computers missing from this list below of computers  
> that were built from 1940 to 1950?
> Year
> Computer
> Country
> Name
> 1941
> Z3
> Germany
> 1942
> ABC
> U.S.
> 1943
> Colossus
> U.K
> 1944
> Harvard Mark 1
> U.S.
> 1944
> Bell Labs Model 3
> U.S.
> 1945
> Z4
> Germany
> 1946
> ENIAC
> U.S.
> 1947
> SSEC
> U.S.
> 1948
> SSEM
> U.K.
> 1949
> BINAC
> U.S.
> 1949
> EDSAC
> U.K.
> 1949
> CSIRC
> Australia
> 1949
> EDVAC
> U.S.
> 1949
> MADM
> U.K.
> 1950
> MESM
> Ukraine
>
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