UCLA's 1948 Mechanical Computer
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The mechanical computers of yesterday may have been enormous, difficult to program, and amazingly clunky—but they sure were beautiful to watch in action. Released theatrically by Popular Science on August 6, 1948, this short film played before Paramount Pictures movies and demonstrated to the public how computers were freeing “research of old limitations” and provided “stimulus for unprecedented technical advancements.” For those watching in darkened theaters, though, it was mostly just gorgeously choreographed machinery.
(Full text https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/uclas-1948-mechanical-computer-was-simply-gorgeous-to-w-830721054)
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@catweazle 45 major components, that's a lot. I want one of these. Surely better than the piece of plastic crap I'm writing on right now.
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Although it has certain incompatibilities with Vivaldi, I think
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@gwen-dragon said in UCLA's 1948 Mechanical Computer:
I guess their first programming error was a dead mouse instead of a first bug in a mainframe (found by Navy Officer and programmer Grace Hopper, she was also someone important dealing with the ARPA/Internet later, would call her a geek). Now you know what Debbugging really means
In 1948 this
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@gwen-dragon Yet the description in your link describes, that Hopper wasn't the one who actually found the bug
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