Debugging computers in the 1950s sounds like it wasn’t an easy task. That’s one of the interesting facts from this fascinating talk by [Guy Fedorkow] about the Whirlwind, one of the first ...

BOZEMAN - A 1950s computer, with less memory than a musical greeting card, was donated to the American Computer Museum here. "Here comes the beast," said museum director George Keremedjiev Friday ...

During the 1960s, many academics, consultants, computer vendors, and journalists promoted the "totally integrated management information system" (MIS) as the destiny of corporate computing and of ...

BOZEMAN (AP) - A 1950s computer, with less memory than a musical greeting card, was donated to the American Computer Museum here.

So when the IBM 729 that lives at the the Computer History Museum began having some read-write errors last April, there were any number of things that could be going wrong.

When we talk about a “computer” today, we generally picture an electronic machine that can perform various kinds of mathematical operations, manage its program flow, move data from one … ...

The Harwell Dekatron computer is a 1950s computer having roughly the weight and size of a Hummer H3 and the computing power of a four-function pocket calculator. Having been restored to its ...

They've been around along time but have only been useful in recent years. Meteorology took a step forward in the 1950s when high-speed computers were developed to solve mathematical equations that ...

Who’s smarter: humans or machines? Find out in the ’50s romantic comedy “The Desk Set,” the first show of Summer Place Theatre’s season. The production runs from Frida… ...

Here's a new version of Jingle Bells you won't hear played in malls, and it's courtesy of one of the oldest computers in history. Turing archive director Jack Copeland and composer Jason Long have ...