Harvard Mark IV
| Developer | Howard Aiken |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Harvard University |
| Release date | 1952 |
| Predecessor | Harvard Mark III |
The Harvard Mark IV was an electronic stored-program computer built by Harvard University under the supervision of Howard Aiken for the United States Air Force. The computer was finished being built in 1952.[1] It stayed at Harvard, where the Air Force used it extensively.
The Mark IV was all electronic. The Mark IV used magnetic drum and had 200 registers of ferrite magnetic-core memory (one of the first computers to do so). It separated the storage of data and instructions in what is known as the Harvard architecture.
See also
- Harvard Mark I
- Harvard Mark II
- Harvard Mark III
- List of vacuum tube computers
- Howard Aiken
- Harvard (World War II advanced trainer aircraft)
References
- ^ Research, United States Office of Naval (1953). A survey of automatic digital computers. Office of Naval Research, Dept. of the Navy. p. 43.
Further reading
- A History of Computing Technology, Michael R. Williams, 1997, IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-8186-7739-2
External links
- Harvard Mark IV 64-bit Magnetic Shift Register at ComputerHistory.org
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