Whirlwind I was a Cold War-era vacuum-tube computer developed by the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory for the U.S. Navy. Operational in 1951, it was among...

Rajchman in the early 1950s, before being commercialized with the Whirlwind I computer in 1953. Magnetic-core memory was the dominant form of memory until...

and counting sort algorithms in 1954 at MIT. He also worked on the Whirlwind Computer and developed instruments that powered the guidance systems for the...

projects, leading to the development of computer graphics as a discipline. Early projects like the Whirlwind and SAGE Projects introduced the CRT as a...

collection and, at that same time, others were looking to preserve the Whirlwind computer. The resulting Museum Project had its first exhibit in 1975, located...

design used an improved version of the Whirlwind I magnetic core memory and was an extension of the Whirlwind II computer program, renamed AN/FSQ-7 in 1953...

transfer controlling device", issued 1955-05-17  "1953: Whirlwind computer debuts core memory". Computer History Museum. Archived from the original on 2018-05-08...

The Westland Whirlwind helicopter was a British licence-built version of the U.S. Sikorsky S-55/H-19 Chickasaw. It primarily served with the Royal Navy's...

original on 17 March 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2019. "1953: Whirlwind computer debuts core memory". Computer History Museum. Archived from the original on 3 October...

needed. The key to this system was a computer that could perform reliably in real time. MIT's Whirlwind computer, built in the 1940s, looked to be a possible...

million bits. The first use of magnetic core was in the Whirlwind computer, and Project Whirlwind's "most famous contribution was the random-access, magnetic...

still called "light gun", was created around 1951–1955 as part of the Whirlwind I project at MIT, where it was used to select discrete symbols on the...

service in electronic computers". The tube was developed in 1948, designed at the request of L. D. Wilson for use in the Whirlwind computer. Significant attention...

Computing Machine Laboratory 1944–1959 – Whirlwind Computer, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1944–1959 – Harvard Mark 1 Computer 1945 – Merrill Wheel-Balancing System...

drives we use today. Even computer graphics began during the vacuum tube era with the IBM 740 CRT Data Recorder and the Whirlwind light pen. Programming...

than the gun. The first light gun of this type was used on the MIT Whirlwind computer, which used a similar light pen. Like rail shooters, movement is typically...

Rajchman in the early 1950s, before being commercialised with the Whirlwind computer in 1953. Ken Olsen also contributed to its development. Semiconductor...

Look up whirlwind in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A whirlwind is any kind of vertical wind vortex. Whirlwind may also refer to: Whirlwind (comics)...

Douglas T Ross, working on the Whirlwind computer at MIT, wrote the "first hand-drawn graphics input program to a computer". The first publicly demonstrated...

The first device of this type, the light pen, was used on the MIT Whirlwind computer. Modern starting pistols in athletics use similar devices that emit...

MIT's Whirlwind digital computer project. There he is credited as a co-inventor of magnetic core memory, the predominant form of random-access computer memory...

poisoning. High-reliability tubes had to be developed for the early Whirlwind computer, with filaments free of traces of silicon. Slow degradation of the...

of exhibits featured the pioneering Whirlwind Computer, the SAGE computer room, an evolutionary series of computers built by Seymour Cray, and a 20-year...

stored in the computer. When the Air Force project wound down, the Lab turned their attention to an effort to build a version of the Whirlwind using transistors...

the 1930s, the wartime MIT Radiation Laboratory, the post-war Project Whirlwind and Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and MIT Lincoln Laboratory's...

pioneering MIT Whirlwind II digital computer design, and manufactured by IBM as prime contractor, the AN/FSQ-7 was the largest discrete computer system ever...

World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap". Wired. Retrieved 2020-02-28. Everett, R. R. (1951). "The Whirlwind I computer". Papers and Discussions...

a row of display lamps for results. In 1956, the Whirlwind Mark I computer became the first computer equipped with a keyboard-printer combination with...

Operation Whirlwind is a 1983 video game published by Broderbund Software for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computers. Operation Whirlwind is a battalion-level...

1945 he worked with Jay Forrester on the Whirlwind project, one of the first real time electronic computers. In 1958 he was a founding member of the MITRE...