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Serial computers
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The list Serial computers includes
Kenbak-1, Bendix G-15, English Electric DEUCE, Manchester Baby and EDSAC.
The list consists of 21 members.
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Bendix G-15
1956 computer design
Overview: The Bendix G-15 is a computer introduced in 1956 by the Bendix Corporation, Computer Division, Los Angeles, California. It is about 5 ft × 3 ft × 3 ft (1.52 m × 0.91 m × 0.91 m) and weighs about 966 lb ...
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Colossus computer
Early British cryptanalysis computerOverview: Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus used thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) to perform Boolean ... 0
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PDP-8
first commercially successful minicomputer
Overview: The PDP-8 is a family of 12-bit minicomputers that was produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It was the first commercially successful minicomputer, with over 50,000 units sold during the model's ... 0
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ENIAC
First electronic general-purpose digital computer
Overview: ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. Other computers had some of these features, but ENIAC ... 0
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Z5 (computer)
computerOverview: The Z5 was a computer designed by Konrad Zuse and manufactured by Zuse KG following an order by Ernst Leitz GmbH in Wetzlar in 1950. The computer was delivered in July 1953 and was the first commercial ... 0
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SEAC (computer)
first-generation electronic computer built in 1950
Overview: SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer or Standards Electronic Automatic Computer) was a first-generation electronic computer, built in 1950 by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (NBS) and was ... 0
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Atanasoff–Berry computer
early electronic digital computing device
Overview: The Atanasoff–Berry computer (ABC) was the first automatic electronic digital computer. The device was limited by the technology of the day. The ABC's priority is debated among historians of computer ... 0
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Manchester Mark 1
English stored-program computer, 1949
Overview: The Manchester Mark 1 was one of the earliest stored-program computers, developed at the Victoria University of Manchester, England from the Manchester Baby (operational in June 1948). Work began in August ... 0
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Ferranti Mark 1
One of the world's first commercially available general-purpose digital computers
Overview: The Ferranti Mark 1, also known as the Manchester Electronic Computer in its sales literature, and thus sometimes called the Manchester Ferranti, was produced by British electrical engineering firm Ferranti ... 0
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Manchester Baby
first electronic stored-program computer
Overview: The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the first electronic stored-program computer. It was built at the University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom ... 0
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Nimrod (computer)
special purpose computer that played the game of Nim
Overview: The Nimrod, built in the United Kingdom by Ferranti for the 1951 Festival of Britain, was an early computer custom-built to play Nim, inspired by the earlier Nimatron. The twelve-by-nine-by-five-foot ... 0
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EDSAC
1940s-1950s British computer
Overview: The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) was an early British computer. Inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, the machine was constructed by Maurice ... 0
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Overview: MasPar Computer Corporation was a minisupercomputer vendor that was founded in 1987 by Jeff Kalb. The company was based in Sunnyvale, California. 0
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Z22 (computer)
computer
Overview: The Z22 was the seventh computer model Konrad Zuse developed (the first six being the Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, Z5 and Z11, respectively). One of the early commercial computers, the Z22's design was finished about ... 0
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Z4 (computer)
computer
Overview: The Z4 was arguably the world's first commercial digital computer, and is the oldest surviving programmable computer. It was designed, and manufactured by early computer scientist Konrad Zuse's company ... 0
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Z3 (computer)
first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer
Overview: The Z3 was a German electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse in 1938, and completed in 1941. It was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer. The Z3 was built ... 0
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DYSEAC
1954 type of computer
Overview: DYSEAC was the second Standards Electronic Automatic Computer. (See SEAC.) 0
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Pilot ACE
computer
Overview: The Pilot ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) was one of the first computers built in the United Kingdom. Built at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the early 1950s, it was also one of the earliest ... 0
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Kenbak-1
very early personal computer
Overview: The Kenbak-1 is considered by the Computer History Museum, the Mimms Museum of Technology and Art and the American Computer Museum to be the world's first "personal computer", invented by John Blankenbaker ... 0
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LEO (computer)
1951 British computerOverview: The LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) was a series of early computer systems created by J. Lyons and Co. The first in the series, the LEO I, was the first computer used for commercial business applications ... 0
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