1944 Computer History: IBM ASCC "Harvard Mark 1" world's largest electro-mechanical calculator

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Original 1944 film footage of IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC) aka the "Harvard Mark 1" world’s largest electro-mechanical calculator. Uploaded with improved audio, video, narration and new music soundtrack! (4 mins) Hope you enjoy!

Photos and film courtesy of IBM and U.S. Naval Archives

Music score Courtesy of"The Frozen Goat Band"
Russ Lassonde: Rhythm Guitar
Ed McCarthy: Drums
Matt Greenia: Lead Guitar
Bob Habereni: Bass

Narration, Patrick Phillips
Compilation by Computer History Archives Project

---- ASCC Bits and Trivia----

-designed in 1937 by Harvard Graduate Student, Howard Aiken to solve advanced math & physics problems;
-built by IBM for Harvard University, completed in 1944;
-over 51 feet long, 8ft. tall, with 500 miles of wiring;
-operated by U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships;
-world's largest electro-mechanical computer (not electronic);
-utilized switches, relays and 765,000 electromechanical
components;
-input from 24-channel punched paper tape;
-design included 78 adding machines linked together;
-operated from 1944 to 1959;
-overall cost nearly $300,000
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