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81Olivetti Elea — Central console unit of Elea 9003 The Elea 9003 is one of a series of mainframe computers Olivetti developed starting in the late 1950s. The system, made entirely with transistors for high performance, was conceived, designed and developed by a… …
82Year 2000 problem — Y2K redirects here. For other uses, see Y2K (disambiguation). The (French) sign reads 3 January 1900 instead of 3 January 2000 The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the Millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or simply Y2K) was a problem for …
83IBM 650 — The IBM 650 ( [http://www 03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/650/650 ph06.html photo] ) was one of IBM’s early computers, and the world’s first mass produced ( [http://www 03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/650/650 ph05.html photo] ) computer. It was… …
84Timeline of binary prefixes — This article presents a terminology timeline of binary prefixes.1940s; 1943 1944:*J.W. Tukey coins the word bit as an abbreviation of binary digit . [http://catb.org/ esr/jargon/html/B/bit.html The Jargon File (version 4.4.7)] ] ; 1948:*… …
85Computer terminal — A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that is used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a computer or a computing system. Early terminals were inexpensive devices but very slow compared to punched… …
86Computer multitasking — In computing, multitasking is a method where multiple tasks, also known as processes, share common processing resources such as a CPU. In the case of a computer with a single CPU, only one task is said to be running at any point in time, meaning… …
87Electronic data processing — Bold textElectronic data processing (EDP) can refer to the use of automated methods to process commercial data. Typically, this uses relatively simple, repetitive activities to process large volumes of similar information. For example: stock… …
88English Electric DEUCE — The DEUCE (Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine) was one of the earliest British commercially available computers, built by English Electric from 1955. It was the production version of the Pilot ACE, itself a cut down version of Alan… …
89KL-7 — The TSEC/KL 7, code named ADONIS, was a rotor machine encryption system introduced in the 1950s by the U.S. National Security Agency. It had eight rotors, seven of which moved in a complex pattern. The non moving rotor was in the middle of the… …
90Card reader — A card reader is a data input device that reads data from a card shaped storage medium. Historically, paper or cardboard punched cards were used throughout the first several decades of the computer industry to store information and write programs …
