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IBM ASCC-Mark I computer framed photograph

IBM ASCC-Mark I computer framed photograph

Date: 1945-1955
Inventory Number: 1997-1-0963f
Classification: Photograph
Subject:
mathematics, computing,
Maker: Harvard Computation Laboratory (1944 - 1997)
Associate Name: International Business Machines Corporation (1911-present)
Associate Name: Howard H. Aiken (1900 - 1973)
Associate Name: Benjamin M. Durfee (1897 - 1980)
Associate Name: Clair D. Lake (1888 - 1958)
Associate Name: Frank E. Hamilton (1898 - 1972)
Associate Name: Richard M. Bloch (1922 - 2000)
Associate Name: Grace Murray Hopper (1906 - 1992)
Associate Name: Robert V. D. Campbell (born 1916)
Associate Name: United States Navy (founded 1775)
Cultural Region:
United States,
Place of Origin:
Cambridge,
Material:
wood, glass, paper,
Bibliography:
A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator
Description:
Framed photograph taken in the late 1940s or early 1950s of the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), Harvard Mark I computer as set up in the Computation Laboratory at Harvard. Parts of the machine are identified on the photograph.
In Collection(s)
  • Harvard IBM Mark I Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator
Signedunsigned
Published ReferencesOnline exhibit about the ASCC produced by the IBM corporate archives.

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