Welcome to Advent of Computing, the show that talks about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories behind their creation, in each episode we will learn how older tech has lead to our modern world.
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episode 83: SEAC
The Standards Eastern Automatic Computer was built by the National Bureau of Standards in 1948. It started crunching numbers in 1950 and stayed in constant operation until... 1964! This early machine, festooned with vacuum tubes, lived well past the first transistorized computers. So what exactly is SEAC doing so far into the semiconductor future?
Selected Sources:
https://archive.org/details/circularofbureau551unse/page/n7/mode/2up - Circular 551
https://sci-hub.se/10.1109/85.238389 - EDVAC Draft Report
https://sci-hub.se/10.1145/1457720.1457763 - Imaging with SEAC