[HN Gopher] ONR Digital Computer Newsletter (1949-64)
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       ONR Digital Computer Newsletter (1949-64)
        
       Author : abrax3141
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2023-05-21 00:12 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | ipunchghosts wrote:
       | Historically this was a great funding agency, but in recent
       | years, it funds only graduate students. The experience of senior
       | scientists lacks from the majority or programs.
        
       | detourdog wrote:
       | This is such a great resource. Thank you for posting it.
        
       | PostOnce wrote:
       | Another ONR document, also courtesy of bitsavers:
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       | "A Survey Of Automatic Digital Computers 1953"
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       | https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_onrASurveyomputers1953...
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       | This document is a list of all the computers in the world at the
       | time, and they are measured by the following metrics:
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       | Square feet of floor area, kilowatts of power required, and how
       | many people it takes to operate.
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       | I found that because there was a quote in "Turing's Cathedral" by
       | George Dyson:
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       | "In March of 1953, there were 53 kilobytes of high-speed random-
       | access memory on planet Earth"
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       | We've come a long way from slide rules.
        
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