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Page 1: Computing from Mainframes to Minicomputers

Human computers at work

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ENIAC

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ENIAC

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Whirlwind

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UNIVAC

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UNIVAC Console

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UNIVAC and Walter Cronkite

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PDP-1 with CRT visual display

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PDP-1 with Steve Russell, creator of Spacewar!

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ASR-33 Teletype Terminal

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Attributions

Human computers, "Human computers - Dryden" by NACA (NASA) - Dryden Flight Research Center Photo Collection - http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/Places/HTML/E49-54.html. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_computers_-_Dryden.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Human_computers_-_Dryden.jpg

"Eniac" by Unknown - U.S. Army Photo. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eniac.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Eniac.jpg

"Two women operating ENIAC" by United States Army - Image from [1]. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_women_operating_ENIAC.gif#mediaviewer/File:Two_women_operating_ENIAC.gif

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Whirlwind, 1951https://www.ll.mit.edu/about/History/earlydigitalcomputing.html

"UNIVAC-I-BRL61-0977". Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UNIVAC-I-BRL61-0977.jpg#mediaviewer/File:UNIVAC-I-BRL61-0977.jpg

"Univac I at CHM.agr" by ArnoldReinhold - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Univac_I_at_CHM.agr.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Univac_I_at_CHM.agr.jpg

"UNIVAC 1 demo" by U.S. Census Bureau - Copied from English Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:UNIVAC_1_demo.jpg. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UNIVAC_1_demo.jpg#mediaviewer/File:UNIVAC_1_demo.jpg

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"PDP-1" by Matthew Hutchinson - http://www.flickr.com/photos/hiddenloop/307119987/. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PDP-1.jpg#mediaviewer/File:PDP-1.jpg

PDP-1 and Steve Russell "Steve Russell and PDP-1" by Alex Handy (cropped by Arnold Reinhold) - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Russell_and_PDP-1_-_Vintage_Computer_Fair_2006.jpg. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Russell_and_PDP-1.png#mediaviewer/File:Steve_Russell_and_PDP-1.png

"ASR-33 at CHM.agr" by ArnoldReinhold - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ASR-33_at_CHM.agr.jpg#mediaviewer/File:ASR-33_at_CHM.agr.jpg