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	Electronic Computers Within The Ordnance Corps, ORDVAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		ORDVAC (Ordnance Variable Automatic Computer) belongs to the group of computers whose basic logic was developed by the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, NJ and utilized in a prototype computer developed at the Institute.
		ORDVAC was constructed by the University of Illinois for the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, under a contract from the Ordnance Department.
		ORDVAC was provisionally accepted by the Ballistic Research Laboratory on the basis of tests conducted between 15-25 November 1951 at the University of Illinois.
	ftp.arl.mil /~mike/comphist/61ordnance/chap4.html (4249 words)

	Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The ORDVAC or Ordnance Discrete Variable Automatic Computer, an early computer built by the University of Illinois for the Ballistics Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, was based on the IAS architecture developed by John von Neumann, which came to be known as the von Neumann architecture.
		ORDVAC became operational in the Spring of 1951 at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.
		After ORDVAC was moved to Aberdeen, it was used remotely by telephone by the University of Illinois for up to eight hours per night.
	www.stylokna.pl /wikipedia/ORDVAC (312 words)

	HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH
		ORDVAC (Ordnance Variable Automatic Computer) belongs to the group of computers whose basic logic was developed by the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey and utilized in a prototype computer developed at the Institute.
		In the ORDVAC memory facilities are provided so that when the memory is not in use for arithmetic operations a test is made of each spot of the memory, in order, and each spot is regenerated by appropriately turning the beam on or off so that a "fair" dot is regenerated into a "good" dash.
		ORDVAC has operated on a 24 hour per day basis at better than 800 efficiency, and by late 1961 it was still scheduled to continue operation even after the newer machine, BRLESC would be in operation.
	www.ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/U-S-Ord-61-ch04.html (4319 words)

	Electronic Computers Within The Ordnance Corps, Appendix III -- ORDVAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The ORDVAC belongs to the group of computers whose basic logic was developed by the Institute for Advanced Study and utilized in the IAS computer.
		In the ORDVAC, three-dimensional wiring is employed by placing the arithmetic unit and other controls on opposite sides, and interconnected wiring running across the open space between.
		ORDVAC will control read, write, re- wind forward and backward, move tape forward and back N words, starting at A address of memory, transfer to B address of memory for next instruction, re- record N words, playback N words, check for parity error, transfer on error, and other functions.
	ftp.arl.mil /~mike/comphist/61ordnance/app3.html (1041 words)

	ORDVAC - TheBestLinks.com - John von Neumann, University of Illinois, Institute for Advanced Study, IAS machine, ...
		ORDVAC - TheBestLinks.com - John von Neumann, University of Illinois, Institute for Advanced Study, IAS machine,...
		ORDVAC, John von Neumann, University of Illinois, Institute for Advanced Study...
		As with other computers of its era, it was a one of a kind machine that could not exchange programs with other computers (even other IAS machines).
	www.thebestlinks.com /ORDVAC.html (141 words)

	John Purcell Nash Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The ORDVAC was constructed under contract for the U.S. Army to be located at the Aberdeen Proving Ground.
		ONR Task 30 materials contain progress reports and an application for extension of a research project in numerical analysis that was supervised by Nash.
		ORDVAC Progress Reports contain information about the general status, design, testing, and personnel of the Army project.
	www.cbi.umn.edu /collections/inv/cbi00014.html (412 words)

	ELECTRONIC BRAIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The secret of ORDVACs memory lies lies in forty of the 2,720 vacum tubes in a cabinet ten feet long and two feet wide and and eight and one-halr feet high.
		The ORDVAC with its electronic memory tubes is 100 times faster than some computing machines which use magnetic drums as memory elements.
		Two machines with memories of the ORDVAC type are being used by the Bureau of Standards but each stores only 512 digits a tube as compared with ORDVAC's 1,024.
	members.core.com /A0/BD/jackstar/computer.html (521 words)

	The Illiac I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Cost for the project was reduced by an order for an identical computer for the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.
		This machine, the ORDVAC, was the first of the two computers completed, passing its acceptance tests in February of 1952.
		This "Bootstrap Input Routine" was essentially an operating system written by David Wheeler for the ORDVAC.
	ems.music.uiuc.edu /history/illiac.html (1116 words)

	BRL Report 1961
		ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND REMARKS The ORDVAC belongs to the group of computers whose basic logic was developed by the Institute for Advanced Study and utilized in the IAS computer.
		The ORDVAC is a direct-coupled machine using threedimensional construction.
		The translator uses the following number of circuit elements Transistors SB 100 135 2N 43 24 2N 140 12 Total 171 Crystal diodes 253 Resistors 305 Capacitors 23 The above components are mounted on 21 printed circuit boards.
	ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/BRL61-o.html (2297 words)

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		Computing at the University of Illinois began in 1949, when the research board under Graduate College Dean Louis Rineour sent a proposal to University President George Stoddard recommending that the university construct a copy of the von Newmann machine designed at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University.
		Until the Department of Computer Science was formed in 1957, faculty members working on computers in DCL held academic appointments in academic departments, primarily electrical engineering and physics.
		With commendable foresight, two of every part required for ORDVAC had been purchased or built; by November 1952, it was possible to construct a duplicate computer called ILLIAC.
	www.ece.uiuc.edu /pubs/centhist/five/DCL1.HTM (317 words)

	ENIAC
		As one observer put it, "Of course, the EDVAC was always threatening to work." As constructed, EDVAC differed from the early von Neumann designs and suffered frequent redesigns and modifications.
		Interestingly, ORDVAC's basic logic was developed by von Neumann's group at IAS.
		Meanwhile, in 1948 after reassembly at APG, ENIAC was converted into an internally stored-fixed program computer through the use of a converter code.
	www.amc.army.mil /amc/ho/studies/eniac.html (1869 words)

	MSU Computer Lab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		But Dr. John D. Ryder had come to Michigan State College as Dean of Engineering in July 1954 from the University of Illinois, where he had been head of Electrical Engineering.
		They had built the Illiac and Ordvac for about $500,000, half paid for by the federal government, which bought the Ordvac.
		Ryder estimated that Michigan State could build a machine that was compatible with the Illiac software for about $150,000.
	www.msu.edu /~complab/FrameMISTIC.html (1654 words)

	ORDVAC: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about ORDVAC
		ORDVAC: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about ORDVAC
		The ORDVAC or Ordnance Discrete Variable Automatic Computer, an early computer built by the University of Illinois for the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground[?], was based on the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) architecture developed by John von Neumann.
		As with all computers of its era, it was a one of a kind machine that could not exchange programs with other computers (even other IAS machines).
	www.encyclopedian.com /or/ORDVAC.html (97 words)

	ARL/BRL Since Eniac
		ENIAC had been moved from Philadelphia and reconstructed at APG in 1947; EDVAC was finally operating consistently; and the ORDVAC had just been delivered.
		The third machine, ORDVAC, belonged to the group of computers whose basic logic was developed by the IAS.
		It was built by the University of Illinois and brought to APG in 1952, and BRL operated it until 1967.
	www.amc.army.mil /amc/ho/studies/arlbrl.html (2228 words)

	The Encyclopedia of Computer Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Designed for and used primarily by BRLandquot;s professional programmers, it is a problem-oriented language that is closer to a good machine language than most problem-oriented languages.
		In the ORDVAC, the tube counts have gone way down, only 3,000, and the number of transistors is coming up.
		The variety of errors detected during the running of the program was also provided as output for the programmer.
	hopl.murdoch.edu.au /showlanguage.prx?exp=3062 (2277 words)

	History of the ENIAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		At the same time that ENAIC was becoming faster and easier to use, two new computers were being built to surpass the ENIAC.
		The EDVAC and ORDVAC were created and built in 1953.
		By 1955, the new machines had surpassed the ENIAC in being cheaper to use and so soon after on October 2, 1955 ENIAC's power source was removed.
	web.utk.edu /~sstrunk/third.html (315 words)

	Michigan State Intregral Computer
		The ILLIAC was a descendant of the IAS from Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.
		The ILLIAC was also a copy of the ORDVAC (also built by the University of Illinois) and served as the blueprint for quite a large number of computers built around the world at that time.
		Here is a section on MISTIC from a March 1961 report from the Ballistic Research Laboratories.
	www.pa.msu.edu /people/laurens/mistic (232 words)

	ordvac - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		We found 3 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word ordvac:
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "ordvac" is defined.
		ORDVAC : BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=ordvac&loc=resrd (78 words)

	Encyclopedia: EDVAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		EDVAC ran until 1961 when it was replaced by BRLESC; over its lifetime it had proved to be highly reliable and productive.
		The BRLESC I (Ballistic Research Laboratories Electronic Scientific Computer) was a first-generation electronic computer built by the US Army Ballistics Research Laboratory (BRL) at Aberdeen Proving Ground with assistance from the NBS, and was designed to take over the computational workload of EDVAC and ORDVAC, which themselves were successors...
		First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC by John von Neumann.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/EDVAC (1109 words)

	History \| About Us \| Computer Science \| UIUC
		1952 ORDVAC moves to the Army Ballistic Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland.
		It is used remotely from Illinois via a teletype circuit up to eight hours each night until the ILLIAC computer is completed.
		Next Item 1959 Abraham Taub, a mathematician who was a key member of the ORDVAC team, becomes head of the Digital Computer.
	www.cs.uiuc.edu /about/history.php (1888 words)

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		Reports relating to the ILLIAC, ORDVAC, and the Digital Computer Laboratory, mimeographed lecture notes, a small amount of correspondence, and articles, all relating to the University of Illinois' computing activities.
		The articles and reprints include a two-page article on an ILLIAC-generated music composition, a review of computer progress for 1955 (by Nash), and an article with information about the ILLIAC written in Japanese.
		Also included are ONR Task 30 records and ORDVAC progress reports.
	special.lib.umn.edu /findaid/xml/cbi00014.xml (527 words)

	ORDVAC - ORDnance Variable Automatic Computer
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	www.auditmypc.com /acronym/ORDVAC.asp (98 words)

	history... YOU SHOULD NOT SEE THIS YOU BASTARD!!!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Army's Ballistic Research Laboratories is a prime example of the military's former forefront in the computer industry.
		These laboratories were first in many areas such as operating ENIAC, EDVAC, ORDVAC, BRLESC, BRLESC II, developed FORAST, designed one of the first FORTRAN compilers for a non-IBM system, and helped to developed ARPANET.
		For those who do not know what these acronyms are, this is the basic progression of the first super-computers into the Internet.
	www.iit.edu /~schrale/c&m/hist.html (480 words)

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		The ENIAC had demonstrated that individual computations could be performed at elec-tronic speed, but the instructions (the program) that drove these computations could not be modified and sequenced at the same electronic speed as the computa-tions.
		Other early computers in academia, government, and industry, such as Edvac, Ordvac, Illiac I, the Von Neumann IAS computer, and the IBM 701, would not begin productive operation until 1952.
		In 1947, the U. Bureau of the Census, in coopera-tion with the Departments of the Army and Air Force, decided to contract with Eckert and Mauchly, who had developed the ENIAC, to create a computer that would have an internally stored program which could be run at electronic speeds.
	nvl.nist.gov /pub/nistpubs/sp958-lide/html/086-089.html (2007 words)

	2000 Summary of Engineering Research - Computer Science
		From the earliest days in the history of automatic computation, the department has been one of a small number of university groups to design complete systems of hardware as well as software.
		The ORDVAC computer, built in DCL and subsequently shipped to the Aberdeen Ballistic Research Laboratories, was the first working bit-parallel shared program computer.
		ILLIAC I was completed following a similar design shortly thereafter and was in operation from 1952 until 1962.
	www.engr.uiuc.edu /publications/engineering_research/2000/CS.html (371 words)

	Introduction
		In 1949 I accepted a position at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, in the Computing Laboratory of the Ballistics Research Laboratories, working on the ENIAC, the world's first electronic computer.
		Here I did analysis and preparation of numerous types of data reduction and trajectory problems for a variety of the earliest electronic computers, including EDVAC, ORDVAC, the IBM Relay Calculators, the Bell Relay Calculators, and the IBM Card Programmed Calculators, as well as the ENIAC.
		The great bulk of this activity involved obtaining trajectory data from the firing of the V-2 rockets, captured at the end of WWII, that were tested at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /georgetrimble/briefbio.htm (796 words)

	Computer History Museum - 2003 Fellow Award Recipient, DAVID WHEELER
		This led to a Fellowship at Trinity College.
		He spent the next two years at the University of Illinois, helping design the programming system for the ORDVAC and ILLIAC.
		Returning to Cambridge in 1953, he designed extensions to the EDSAC such as an index register, and the order code and programming system for the EDSAC 2.
	www.computerhistory.org /events/hall_of_fellows/david_wheeler/index.shtml (281 words)

	Harford MOS Newsletter for April 2001
		For 38 years, he calculated studies at the Ballistics Research Lab at Aberdeen Proving Ground, where he worked in the early days of the space exploration program.
		He was among the first scientists there who programmed the early digital ORDVAC, ordnance discrete variable automatic computer, a device built at the University of Illinois for the federal government.
		In the 1950s, he ran a simulation on the ORDVAC of a missile warhead then under development.
	www.harfordbirdclub.org /v14n2.html (4896 words)

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		Many of the machines with long word length, like IAS, use the two-instructions-per-word format.
		Subsequent machines built with only minor variations include ORDVAC; ILLIAC I at the University of Illinois with a 40-bit electrostatic memory and vacuum-tube logic; AVIDAC, ORACLE, MANIAC I, WEIZAC, SILLIAC, BESK, DASK, CSIRAC, and JOHNNIAC at the RAND Corporation with a 40-bit core memory and transistor logic [Gruenberger, 1968].
		Other similar computers include the IBM 701 with a 36-bit word, electrostatic memory and vacuum-tube logic; and the CDC 1604, with a 48-bit word, core memory, and transistor logic (possibly influenced by MANIAC II).
	www.research.microsoft.com /~gbell/Computer_Structures__Readings_and_Examples/00000109.htm (562 words)

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