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

[Brian Randell]

Hi:

And I'd add

1944	Colossus II	UK	(and eight further copies/variants of Colossus II 1944/1945)

Cheers

Brian Randell

On 15 Nov 2012, at 03:04, David Hemmendinger wrote:

> The other Bell Labs computers.  From Paul Ceruzzi's _Reckoners_:
>               Model II   Model IV      Model V (two copies)
> Date completed  7-1943     3-1945       12-1946, 8-1947 
> Also: Model I, 1939; Model VI, 1949 
> 
> The Harvard Mark II, III.
> 
> The Pilot ACE (UK) ran in May, 1950 according to alanturing.net and was
> demonstrated in Dec, 1950, according to Wikipedia.
> 
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>> 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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