The use of efficient search strategies, such as “iterative deepening with hash tables,” running on a supercomputer, allowed them to dominate computer chess tournaments throughout the 1970s.

Ostrich developer Monty Newborn (left) watches board as his opponent ETAION SHRDLU ponders next move at the 6th ACM North American Computer Chess Championship. Supercomputer-based Chess …

Title Slate and Atkin at the 6th ACM North American Computer Chess Tournament in Minneapolis, Minnesota

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They eventually became famous as a supplier of very large and powerful scientific computing systems, many of which were designed by Seymour Cray and his associates, until he left to form his own high …

A full-scale working replica of the ABC was completed in 1997, proving that the ABC machine functioned as Atanasoff had claimed. The replica is currently on display at the Computer History Museum.

Details Description Date 1965 ca. Credit Line Courtesy of the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Copyright Owner © University of Minnesota. Charles Babbage Institute …

In 1946, Andrew Donald Booth of the University of London constructed a magnetic drum storage device, 2 in. diameter, and 2 in. long, capable of storing ten bits per inch on a nickel-plated brass drum that …

DEC RL01 Memory & Storage 1975 Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) makes its debut Computers 1968

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