| | History of computing hardware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | The history of computing, is an overview and treats methods intended for pen and paper, with or without the aid of tables. |
 | | During the Manhattan project, future Nobel laureate Richard Feynman was the supervisor of the roomful of human computers, many of them women mathematicians, who understood the differential equations which were being solved for the war effort. |
 | | This University machine became the prototype for the Ferranti Mark I, the world's first commercially available computer except for Konrad Zuse's Z4 which was leased to ETH Zürich in 1950 (some also point out that LEO I was the computer that was used for the world's first regular routine office computer job in November 1951). |
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