punch-card computer
31Resident monitor — A Resident monitor (1950s 1970s) was a piece of software that was an integral part of a general use punch card computer. The resident monitor governed the machine before and after each control card was executed, loaded and interpreted each… …
32punchcard — punch card n. A medium for feeding data into a computer, essentially a card punched with holes or notches to represent letters and numbers or with a pattern of holes to represent related data. Also called Hollerith card. * * * …
33List of IBM products — The following is a list of notable products from the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation and its predecessor corporations, beginning in the 1890s, and spanning punched card machinery, time clocks, and typewriters, via mainframe… …
34History of computing hardware — Computing hardware is a platform for information processing (block diagram) The history of computing hardware is the record of the ongoing effort to make computer hardware faster, cheaper, and capable of storing more data. Computing hardware… …
35Unit record equipment — Before the advent of electronic computers, data processing was performed using electromechanical devices called unit record equipment, electric accounting machines (EAM) or tabulating machines. Unit record machines were as ubiquitous in industry… …
36IBM System/360 — The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a mainframe computer system family announced by IBM on April 7, 1964. It was the first family of computers making a clear distinction between architecture and implementation, allowing IBM to release a suite of… …
37UNIVAC — serves as the catch all name for the American manufacturers of the lines of mainframe computers by that name, which through mergers and acquisitions underwent numerous name changes. The company UNIVAC began as the business computer division of… …
38IBM 1401 — The IBM 1401, the first member of the IBM 1400 series, was a variable wordlength decimal computer that was announced by IBM on October 5, 1959. It was withdrawn on February 8, 1971.From the [http://www… …
39ENIAC — [ Betty Jean Jennings (left) and Fran Bilas (right) operate the ENIAC s main control panel at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering. (U.S. Army photo from the archives of the ARL Technical Library)] ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical… …
40IBM 1130 — The IBM 1130 Computing System was introduced in 1965. It was IBM s least expensive computer to date, and was aimed at price sensitive, computing intensive technical markets like education and engineering. The IBM 1800 was a process control… …
