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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > IBM 704
		The IBM 704 was an improved version of the IBM 701.
		The IBM 704, the first mass-produced computer with floating point arithmetic hardware, was introduced by IBM in April, 1956.
		IBM stated that the device was capable of executing up to 40,000 instructions per second.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ib/IBM_704 (236 words)

	IBM 704 - Definition
		A large, scientific computer made by ibm and used by the largest commercial, government and educational institutions.
		The 704, and ibm 709 which had the same basic architecture, represented a substantial step forward from the ibm 650's magnetic drum storage as they provided random access at electronic speed to core storage, typically 32k words of 36 bits each.
		The 704 was oriented toward scientific work and included floating point hardware and the first fortran implementation.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/IBM+704 (585 words)

	IBM Archives: 704 Data Processing System
		The principal advanced feature of the 704 was its high-speed magnetic core storage or memory.
		In a 704, thousands of cores were strung on a complex of wires in such a fashion that several wires passed through the center of each core.
		Controls are included in the 704 for one 711, one 716, one 721, five 727's and one 753, one 733, and one 737.
	www-03.ibm.com /ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP704.html (1237 words)

	Adjust or Go Extinct: 50 Years of Conventional Wisdom and Eye-raising Anecdotes from Programming Veterans
		The IBM system of program processing was to fly programs—big boxes of card desks—to New York (from Los Angeles, where he was then based), where they would be processed on the high-end IBM 704 and flown back.
		These were the beginnings of IBM Global Services, which today accounts for the majority of IBM's revenues and employs some 180,000 professionals (as of 2003).
		IBM's facility in New York City was the hub of software development for the company because it held the (at the time) powerful IBM 704 machine.
	www.devx.com /enterprise/Article/27631/1954?pf=true (1489 words)

	IBM Archives: Space flight chronology
		IBM delivers one of its first 701 computers to Convair, the developer of the Atlas missile (which is later used in the Mercury program).
		IBM introduces the 704 computer, which is applied in satellite tracking and missile design.
		The United States Navy announces that an IBM 704 computer will receive telemetry data from the unmanned Vanguard satellite to calculate and predict the orbit of the 20- inch sphere.
	www.ibm.com /ibm/history/exhibits/space/space_chronology.html (476 words)

	IBM 704
		The IBM 704 was an improved version of the IBM 701.
		The IBM 704, the first mass-produced computer with floating point arithmetic hardware, was introduced by IBM in April, 1956.
		IBM stated that the device was capable of executing up to 40,000 instructions per second.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ib/IBM_704.html (211 words)

	IBM 7030
		In November, 1956 IBM won the contract for a binary computer with the aggressive performance goal of a "speed at least 100 times the IBM 704" to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
		In 1961, actual benchmarks indicated that the performance of the IBM 7030 was only about 30 times the IBM 704, causing caused considerable embarrassment for IBM.
		U.S. National Security Agency in February 1962 as the main CPU of the IBM 7950 Harvest system, used until 1976 when the IBM 7955[?] Tractor tape system developed problems due to worn cams that could not be replaced.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ib/IBM_7030.html (404 words)

	LISP prehistory - Summer 1956 through Summer 1958. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		My desire for an algebraic list processing language for artificial intelligence work on the IBM 704 computer arose in the summer of 1956 during the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence which was the first organized study of AI.
		Second, IBM was undertaking to develop a program for proving theorems in plane geometry (based on an idea of Marvin Minsky's), and I was to serve as a consultant to that project.
		Moreover, the IBM group seemed satisfied with FLPL as it was and did not want to make the vaguely stated but obviously drastic changes required to allow conditional expressions and recursive definition.
	www-formal.stanford.edu /jmc/history/lisp/node2.html (1716 words)

	IBM 704 - Definition, explanation
		The 704 was significantly improved over the IBM 701 in terms of architecture as well as implementation, and was not compatible with its predecessor.
		The programming languages FORTRAN and LISP were first developed for the 704, as was MUSIC 1, the first computer music program by Max Mathews.
		Applications and installations of the IBM 704 Data Processing System – From A Third Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems, Report No. 1115, March 1961, by Martin H. Weik.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/i/ib/ibm_704.php (503 words)

	The IBM 704
		John Backus, formerly of IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University (who also was the principal designer of FORTRAN, the first widespread high-level language for computer programming), as well as Gene Amdahl (who would go on to become chief architect for the IBM 360 and later start his own company to rival IBM).
		IBM 704 Manual of Operation (first 39 pages of -1 version).
		IBM 704 Manual of Operation (full -2 version)
	www.columbia.edu /acis/history/704.html (237 words)

	IBM 704 Fortran Manual
		Some pages from the first Fortran manual, the IBM manual for the 704, are shown.
		Finally, there is a small sample program (trivia quiz: which statement in the program is not legal Fortran 90/95?) and a list of all the statements in the language (the list is about the same length as the list of statements in F).
		The manual was reproduced for Pioneer Days honoring the IBM team at at a computer conference in 1982 (25 years after the delivery of the first compiler).
	www.fortran.com /ibm.html (94 words)

	Computer History Museum - Lectures - The Founding of Amdahl Corporation
		As a consequence, the development took about 50% longer and was more costly than expected, but it was an astounding success that greatly benefited the entire computing community.
		His early professional career was spent at IBM where he worked on simulation studies and machine design for character recognition as designer and project manager for the IBM 704; as initial planner for the IBM 709 and 7030; and as Manager of Architecture for the IBM System/360.
		By 1969, Amdahl had been named an IBM Fellow, that company's highest honor, and was made director of IBM's Advanced Computing Systems (ACS) Laboratory in Menlo Park, California.
	www.computerhistory.org /events/lectures/amdahl_09052001 (421 words)

	Fortran I
		To give you some idea of the state of the art when Lisp was invented, these two images are taken from the first Fortran manual, published in October 1956.
		Fortran was not then called a programming language; the manual describes "The FORTRAN Automatic Coding System for the IBM 704 EDPM."*
		It is an IBM tradition to make up cryptic acronyms for common things.
	www.paulgraham.com /history.html (238 words)

	IBM 7090/94 Architecture Home Page
		The IBM 7090/94 series was the most popular family of large second-generation transistorized mainframe computers and was designed for "large-scale scientific and technological applications".
		By 1965, over 300 IBM 7090/94 systems had been installed with an average purchase price of about $3-million (most were rented from IBM for about $70,000 per month or for about $450,000 per month in today's money as adjusted for inflation).
		In low-end installations, IBM 1401(s) would typically be used to read cards and transfer the information for input to the 7090/94 from magnetic tapes.
	www.frobenius.com /7090.htm (1017 words)

	Virtual Linux
		The earliest uses of virtualization include the IBM® 7044, the Compatible Time Sharing System (CTSS) developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the IBM 704, and Manchester University's Atlas project (one of the world's first supercomputers), which pioneered demand paging and supervisor calls.
		IBM recognized the importance of virtualization in the 1960s with the development of the System/360™ Model 67 mainframe.
		While the IBM System z™ is a new brand name, it actually has a long heritage originating back in the 1960s.
	www-128.ibm.com /developerworks/linux/library/l-linuxvirt/?ca=dgr-lnxw01Virtual-Linux (3996 words)

	IBM704-discription
		One of the first operating systems developed for the IBM 704 was developed at North American Aviation (NAA).
		Previously, IBM would give a company a week or two to do their checkout on their computer in headquarters in New York The company would get four hour blocks of time and waste a lot of computing time while the programmers tried to debug their programs before the four hours were up.
		IBM put one of the NAA people in a limousine along with the 19 tapes and drove them to Armak to get the tapes printed.
	www.palosverdes.com /lasthurrah/IBM704-discription.html (986 words)

	IBM 7030 - "Stretch
		In the early to mid 1950s, IBM and UNIVAC, the only two large companies building computers, were considering the use of transistors in their products.
		Today it may seem surprising that IBM was undergoing tremendous turmoil about its role in the new field of computers.
		IBM reduced the price from $13.5 million to $7.78 million, thus guaranteeing that every machine was built at a loss.
	ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/vs-ibm-stretch.html (1137 words)

	Wikinfo \| IBM 704
		The 704 was an improved version of the IBM 701.
		The new instruction set became the base for the later members of the IBM 700/7000 series.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=IBM_704 (306 words)

	BRL Report 1961
		This device in conjunction with the IBM 704 Computer may be used to develop design parameters in complex weapon display systems, air traffic control problems, radar displays, industrial control monitoring, and many other applications.
		IBM 7090 to be in operation in New York, New York.
		Martin Denver IBM 7090 to be installed as a replacement for the IBM 704.
	ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/BRL61-ibm0704.html (15529 words)

	IBM 000-704 practice tests (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Without 000-704 IBM practice tests, you are foolishly unprepared for the 000-704 IBM compared to others also writing the 000-704 IBM quiz.
		Different from much easier certs, the 000-704 IBM should be studied for - the sheer amount of info on the IBM quiz is absolutely too much to sufficiently learn through your experiences alone.
		IBM practice tests for the 000-704 are very useful.
	www.cram4exams.com /IBM/000-704-practice-tests.html (148 words)

	IBM 704 Definition. Define IBM 704. What is IBM 704? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The IBM 704 had 36-bit memory words, 15-bit addresses and instructions with one address.
		[Or did the 704 actually come before the 650?] A typical 700 series installation would be in a specially built room of perhaps 1000 to 2000 square feet, with cables running under a raised floor and substantial air conditioning.
		There might be up to eight {magnetic tape} transports, each about 3 x 3 x 6 feet, on one or two "channels." The 1/2 inch tape had seven tracks and moved at 150 inches per second, giving a read/write speed of 15,000 six bit characters (plus parity) per second.
	www.definethat.com /hitting.asp?ID=810 (610 words)

	IBM 704@Everything2.com
		IBM made (and continues to make) a wide array of computers, but a few things make the 704 noteworthy for its place in computing history.
		The 704 used the BCD internal character code (Binary Coded Decimal, a precursor to EBCDIC) which was a 6-bit representation - with 6-character words leading to 36 bits.
		The 704, as was typical, consisted of a central processor - called the 'central analytic unit' - housed in a cabinet and designated the model 704.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=846751 (1004 words)

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	IBM 704 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 704, and IBM 709 which had the same basic architecture, represented a substantial step forward from the IBM 650's magnetic drum storage as they provided random access at electronic speed to core storage, typically 32k words of 36 bits each.
		The maintenance of the many thousands of vacuum tubes, each with limited lifetime, and the cleaning, lubrication, and adjustment of mechanical equipment, was augmented by a constant flow of bug reports, change orders to both hardware and software, and hand-holding for worried users.
		The 704 was oriented toward scientific work and included floating point hardware and the first Fortran implementation.
	burks.bton.ac.uk /burks/foldoc/3/55.htm (616 words)

	Ch8-2
		IBM called the control program the Mercury Monitor, but that is a misnomer in that it superceded the capabilities of the known monitors of the time.
		IBM approached the more difficult areas by acquiring the services of specialist consultants and sponsored a group of 10 scientists pursuing solutions to problems in orbital mechanics.
		IBM recognized that the usual 32K memory of the machine would be insufficient when the company prepared its proposal.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/computers/Ch8-2.html (5705 words)

	Vaccuum Tube Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The IBM 704 became the dominant vaccuum-tube logic computer in the late 1950'ies.
		It was the first IBM machine to use core memory.
		An IBM 7094 (enhanced with 7 instead of 3 index registers) became a prime computing machine at Stanford and is shown, with Prof.
	www-db.stanford.edu /pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/2-2-Tubes.htm (243 words)

	Gene Amdahl Summary
		When IBM cut its prices in 1977, Amdahl responded with cuts of his own; sales were three times those of the comparable period in 1976, and the company saw a seven-fold gain in net profits.
		Amdahl worked at IBM from 1952 to 1955 and was a lead designer in the redesign of the IBM 701, which was later marketed as the IBM 704.
		Amdahl was named an IBM Fellow in 1965, became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1967 and was recognized as the Centennial Alumnus of South Dakota State University in 1986.
	www.bookrags.com /Gene_Amdahl (3408 words)

	BRL Report 1961
		This device in conjunction with the IBM 704 Computer may be used to develop design parameters in complex weapon display systems, air traffic control problems, radar displays, industrial control monitoring, and many other applications.
		IBM 7090 to be in operation in New York, New York.
		Martin Denver IBM 7090 to be installed as a replacement for the IBM 704.
	www.ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/BRL61-ibm0704.html (15529 words)

	The origin of CAR and CDR in LISP
		Note that the machine referenced was the IBM 704, not the 7090 or the 709.
		The 704 family (704, 709, 7090) had "Address" and "Decrement" fields that were 15 bits long in some of the looping instructions.
		First a correction: The first implementations of Lisp were on the IBM 704, the vacuum-tube ancestor of the vacuum-tube 709, the ancestor of the transistorized 7090, later upgraded to the 7094.
	www.iwriteiam.nl /HaCAR_CDR.html (1830 words)

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