Early computers



Full text of translation of "Sketch of the Analytical Engine" by L. F. Menabrea with Ada's notes and extensive commentary babbage sketch
        Sketch of The Analytical Engine

AN/FSQ-7 Intercept Computer – From the Online Air Defense Radar Museum (by The Air Defense Radar Veterans' Association).
        AN/FSQ-7 "Whirlwind II" Intercept Computer

''The Univac M-460 Computer'' – Paper by J. E. Thornton, M. Macaulay, and D. H. Toth, Remington Rand Univac Division of Sperry Rand (on-line version from Ed Thelen's Antique Computer Home Page)
        

UNIVAC-NTDS: UNIVAC 1206, AN/USQ-20 – From the Antique Computer website
        UNIVAC-NTDS

From Analytical Engine to Electronic Digital Computer: The Contributions of Ludgate, Torres, and Bush , Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 4, Number 4, October 1982.
        

The Analytical Engine at Fourmilab babbage
        The Analytical Engine

The ENIAC patent trial projects abc trial
        The Trial

Rebuilding the ABC abc
        Rebuilding the ABC

The Birth of the ABC archive
        Department of Computer Science: Iowa State University

inside photo
        Bendix

Bendix G-15 documentation
        Index of /pdf/bendix

info page with photo mak
        

Another G-15 reference antique
        Bendix G-15

Bendix G15 computer
        Bendix-G15-1950s

The Bendix G-15 members
        All about the Bendix G-15

Back in the U.S.S.R. A museum curator suggests Russia's BESM supercomputer may have been superior to ours during the Cold War.
        Back in the U.S.S.R.

BESM-6 Nostalgia Page
        BESM-6 Nostalgia Page

Roger Mills' Description of the BINAC description
        binac

Unisys History Newsletter Volume 5, Number 1 people randy carpenter folklore
        Unisys History Newsletter v5n1

The US Navy's Bombe exhibit museum cfm
        The U.S. Navy Cryptanalytic Bombe Exhibit

Solving the Enigma – History of the Cryptanalytic Bombe – NSA pamphlet
        

Enigma and the Turing Bombe by N. Shaylor, April 17, 1997. Includes a simulator (a Java applet and C)
        Frode Weierud's CryptoCellar | Enigma and the Turing Bombe

A bombe simulator (in Javascript)
        The Turing Bombe

Tony Sale's description of the British bombe
        Virtual Bletchley Park

Bombe rebuild project demon
        Cantab

The Turing Bombe – what it was and how it worked by Graham Ellsbury
        The Turing Bombe - Cribs and Menus

BRL 1964 report, see page 36
        BRL Report 1964

History of Computing at BRL army mil
        The History of Computing at BRL

BRLESC (different source) mil
        Electronic Computers Within The Ordnance Corps, BRLESC

D.K. ARMY ORDNANCE "HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH, ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS WITHIN THE ORDNANCE CORPS"
        HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH

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