El 3 de noviembre de 1937 Howard H. Aiken escribe una carta a J.W. Bryce de IBM donde discute la creación de una máquina de cálculo automático para usarse en computación de problemas físicos. La máquina se construyó y se le llamó Harvard Mark I, la más poderosa de su época
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80 years ago, #IBM presented #Harvard with one of world's earliest #computers: t Automated Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), known as #HarvardMarkI.
Weighing in at 5 tons, electromechanical calculating machine could solve addition problems in less than a second, multiplication in six, and division in 12. One of its first programmers was #GraceHopper, who would go on to be a member of the team that found the first-reported #computerbug when working on the Mark II.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/harvard_mark_1/