The ORDVAC (Ordnance Discrete Variable Automatic Computer), is an early computer built by the University of Illinois for the Ballistic Research Laboratory...

and the U.S. Army to create the ORDVAC and ILLIAC I computers under the direction of physicist Ralph Meagher. The ORDVAC and ILLIAC computers the two earliest...

and was designed to take over the computational workload of EDVAC and ORDVAC, which themselves were successors of ENIAC. It began operation in 1962....

role in the computer designs. ORDVAC was the first of two computers built under contract at the University of Illinois. ORDVAC was completed the spring of...

1952. It was the second of two identical computers, the first of which was ORDVAC, also built at the University of Illinois. These two machines were the first...

Moore School of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania.: 626–628  Along with ORDVAC, it was a successor to the ENIAC. Unlike ENIAC, it was binary rather than...

were developed in early 1950s as part of bigger asynchronous systems (e.g. ORDVAC). Asynchronous circuits and theory surrounding is a part of several steps...

construct their computers. Among these various computers, only ILLIAC and ORDVAC had compatible instruction sets. ARC2 (Birkbeck, University of London) officially...

October 2, 1955, when it was retired in favor of the more efficient EDVAC and ORDVAC computers. A few months after ENIAC's unveiling in the summer of 1946, as...

the lowercase letters u, v, w, x, y and z for the values 10 to 15. The ORDVAC and ILLIAC I (1952) computers (and some derived designs, e.g. BRLESC) used...

MISTIC (Michigan State University) ORACLE (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) ORDVAC (Aberdeen Proving Ground) PERM (Munich) SARA (SAAB) SEAC (Washington, D...

finally crashing in a wooded area in northeastern Pennsylvania. ENIAC ORDVAC BRLESC Aberdeen scandal (1996) United States Army Research Laboratory Ballistic...

four early computers, 1962. From left to right: ENIAC board, EDVAC board, ORDVAC board, and BRLESC-I board, showing the trend toward miniaturization....

type used in ILLIAC III Printed circuits of the type used in ILLIAC III ORDVAC ILLIAC I ILLIAC II ILLIAC IV "Prof. John P. Hayes retires after half a century...

user-oriented programming methods, and the influence of EDSAC on the ILLIAC, the ORDVAC, and the IBM 701. He also notes visits by Douglas Hartree, Nelson Blackman...

instruction set computers. Among these various computers, only ILLIAC and ORDVAC had compatible instruction sets. Manchester Baby (University of Manchester...

discusses the EDSAC project, the influence of EDSAC on the ILLIAC, the ORDVAC, and the IBM 701 computers, as well as visits to Cambridge by Douglas Hartree...

user-oriented programming methods, and the influence of EDSAC on the ILLIAC, the ORDVAC, and the IBM 701. Wheeler also notes visits by Douglas Hartree, Nelson Blackman...

problems. Even so, several asynchronous CPUs have been built, including the ORDVAC and the identical ILLIAC I (1951) the ILLIAC II (1962), then the fastest...

the Control Systems Lab and became one of the early programmers of the ORDVAC. He later worked at Bell Labs and the RAND Corporation before joining New...

the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen, esp. by Heinz Billing ORDVAC 1952 1 Built by the University of Illinois for the Ballistic Research Laboratory...

built by the University of Sydney, Australia, was based on the ILLIAC and ORDVAC computers developed at the University of Illinois. Like other early computers...

Engineering library, although it would not be packaged as a single report. ORDVAC ILLIAC I ILLIAC III ILLIAC IV Brearley, H.C. (1965), "ILLIAC II – A short...

had already acquired the Ordnance Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (ORDVAC), which the lab had commissioned the University of Illinois to build. As...

education at the University of Illinois and helped with the checkout of ORDVAC computer in the summer of 1951. After one year he transferred to Princeton...

to teach English in France. Shutt learned to program on ENIAC successor ORDVAC (Ordnance Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) under Dick Clippinger during...

to build a computer based on von Neumann's plans. The computer, called ORDVAC, was completed in 1952 and delivered to the Aberdeen Proving Ground. A second...

user-oriented programming methods, and the influence of EDSAC on the ILLIAC, the ORDVAC, and the IBM 701. Biographical Librarian, St. John's College, Cambridge...