April 20, 2006

New Calculating Wizard (Feb, 1948)

Let’s see 10,000 operations per minute, that works out to about 166.6 hertz. Not mega or kilo, just plain hertz.

New Calculating Wizard
EDSAC, a British cousin of our electronic mathematical brains, such as ENIAC and ED VAC (PS, May ’47, p. 95), will handle 10,000 multiplications a minute. Now under construction at England’s Cambridge University, EDSAC will remember details of calculations and use “judgment” in choosing the best way to reach a result.

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  1. GO UK!!!

    Comment by clive — August 13, 2008 @ 2:10 pm

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