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| | [IP] Julian Bigelow, 89, Computer Pioneer, Is Dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) |
 | | The resulting computer, which was known as the IAS and which was assembled beginning in June 1946, was one of a handful of computers like ENIAC, EDVAC, Whirlwind, EDSAC and Univac 1 whose construction brought the dawn of the information age. |
 | | It was the IAS machine, however, whose basic design became the template for the modern computers that are now ubiquitous worldwide. |
 | | Fifteen clones of the original IAS machine were built. |
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