Social Science Section 2 Flashcards
Where were most of the Firing Tables created?
Ballistics Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland
When did Dr. Herman Goldstine get drafted into the Military
1942
What did soldiers have to refer to when shooting Artillery guns?
Firing Tables
What problem did the military have regarding firing tables?
They didn’t have enough computers to make all the firing tables
What was Dr. Goldstine hired to do?
Supervise the computer team and compute the firing tables quicker by any means possible
How did Goldstine get his wife to help?
He sent his wife out to hire students with the mathematical ability to join the computer squad
Who was John Mauchly?
An instructor in the University of Pennsylvania who had an idea to make a fully electric calculator
What would a soldier have to consider when firing an artillery gun correctly?
Distances from the target, wind speed and direction, humidity, elevation, and temperature.
Where were the firing tables primarily created at?
At the Ballistics Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland.
Who was Max Newman
A professor of mathematics at Manchester University he sought to construct an EDVAC like computer
What did Max Newman believe was the important technical problem of a EDVAC like computer
Creating a reliable memory system
Who did Max Newman recruit
Fredrick Williams
What did Fredrick Williams design
Designed a new type of storage for a computer
What was the new type of memory storage of a computer called
It was a type of a cathode-ray tube which he named” Williams tube”
What time was the EDVAC completed in?
May 6, 1949
When was the first UNIVAC completed ?
March 1951
Which university had a contractual obligation to the EDVAC
University of Pennsylvania
Who did IBM offer a job to
Eckert and Mauchly
what 2 companies purchased Electrodata and Computer Research Corporations?
Burroughs purchased Electrodata and NCR purchased Computer Research Corporations because they couldn’t come up with new computer designs of their own so they brought smaller companies that had designs, and used their sell forces to earn profits
what company was founded in 1957 by a group of former Sperry Rand employees?
Control Data Corporation (CDC).
what did CDC specialize in?
They specializes in high-performance computers for scientific applications
in 1965 IBM owned 65% of the market shares what 7 other companies owned shares in this market?
Sperry Rand, Burroughs, NCR, RCA, Honeywell, General Electric and CDC
what fairy tale reference did the press use to refer to IBM and its 7 other competitors?
“IBM and the 7 dwarfs”
in the late 1960s RCA and General Electric sold their companies to who?
Sperry Rand and Honeywell