The early mainframe model, powerful in its day, helped NASA control spacecraft for the Gemini and Apollo programs, and the Air Force used it for its Ballistic Missile Early Warning System. Phil ...

How did a professor of animal husbandry, who studied broiler chickens, get involved in the space race? Better yet, how did an Athens supercomputer help the University of Georgia win football games?

In the glass-enclosed machine room of the Harvard Computing Center, a dozen men in shirtsleeves dash about--consulting a stream of paper tumbling out of one machine or filing a stack of cards into the ...

Today in 1959, IBM delivered the first two 7090 mainframe computers. It was the second generation after the 709 vacuum tube mainframe computers. The 7090 was six times faster than the 709 thanks to ...

First off, I highly recommend the movie. Great story, fine acting - Big Bang's Sheldon as you've never seen him before - and a fascinating dollop of computer history. The 7090 was one of IBM's first ...

This folded card lists codes for programming the IBM 7094 computer. It includes file control orders, hypertape control orders, data channel commands, both alphabetic and arithmetic instruction ...

Computers found their voice in the early 1960s with the IBM 7094, the first computer that was used to program and produce a computer-synthesized voice. The pioneering ditty has recently gained a ...