IBM 704
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The IBM 704 is the model name of a large digital mainframe computer introduced by IBM in 1954. Designed by John Backus and Gene Amdahl, it was the first mass-produced computer with hardware for floati
An IBM 704 computer at NACA in 1957
IBM 704 at the Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan
IBM 704 vacuum-tube circuit module
Lisp (programming language)
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Lisp is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in the late 1950s, it is the second-oldest high-level program
IBM 704
…execute up to 12,000 floating-point additions per second. IBM produced 123 type 704 systems between 1955 and 1960. The programming languages FORTRAN and LISP were first developed for the 704, as was the SAP assembler—Symbolic Assembly Program, later distributed by SHARE as "SHARE Assembly Program". MUSIC…
A Lisp machine in the MIT Museum
John Mc Carthy Stanford
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