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The AVIDAC or ''Argonne Version of the Institute's Digital Automatic Computer'', an early computer built by
The AVIDAC or ''Argonne Version of the Institute's Digital Automatic Computer'', an early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory is a science and engineering research United States Department of Energy National Labs, national laboratory operated by University of Chicago, UChicago Argonne LLC for the United States Department of Energy. The facil ...
, was partially based on the IAS IAS may refer to:
Science
* Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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architecture developed by John von Neumann
John von Neumann (; hu, Neumann János Lajos, ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He was regarded as having perhaps the widest cove ...
. It was built by the Laboratory's Physics Division for $250,000 and began operations on January 28, 1953.
As with almost all computers of its era, it was a one-of-a-kind machine that could not exchange programs with other computers (even other IAS machine
The IAS machine was the first electronic computer built at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey. It is sometimes called the von Neumann machine, since the paper describing its design was edited by John von Neumann, a ...
s).
See also
*List of vacuum tube computers
Vacuum-tube computers, now called first-generation computers, are programmable digital computers using vacuum-tube logic circuitry. They were preceded by systems using electromechanical relays and followed by systems built from discrete transis ...
References
External links
* * IAS architecture computers {{microcompu-stub