Today in 1939, Harvard University and IBM signed an agreement to build the Mark I, also known as the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC).
The Mark I, a general purpose electro-mechanical computer, was proposed in 1937 by Harvard’s Howard Aiken. The 1939 agreement called for IBM to construct for Harvard “an automatic computing plant compri…
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