Iconic image of Kay Mauchly (AKA: Kathleen Rita McNulty Mauchly Antonelli), one of the original programmers on the ENIAC during WWII, with husband John Mauchly, ENIAC co-inventor, and Arthur Draper, as they look over the UNIVAC LARC in 1960.
The IBM 5100, one of the first portable computers, combined a typewriter-like electronic keyboard, a 10-keypad for data entry, a 1024-character display, a processing unit with up to 64K positions of main storage, and a tape cartridge for storing data. (1975).
Nancy Gradwell, left, and Bradley Johnson, 8th graders at Philadelphia's Wagner Jr High, listen intently as Mrs, Phyllis Eggleston,
mathematics teacher, explains how to use an IBM 1050 terminal to help solve homework problems, 1966.
Reboot Representation & Pivotal Ventures partnered with McKinsey & Co. on this major, just-released report studying Black, Latina, and Native Americans inclusion & empowerment in information technology.
CBI Image of the Day: A West Germany radio telescope at Effelsberg, measuring at 300 ft across, was built in the 1970s to monitor telemetry from Germany’s first deep space probe satellite, Helios. Data collected was decoded by a dual-processor minicomputer system from Interdata.
An advanced computer-aided design program, called AD2000, available from Control Data Corp., helps to automate the industrial design and drafting process. It was used to create this automotive component model displayed on a computer graphics terminal (1978).
CBI Image of the Day: The computer-laden fuselage of NASA's flying laboratory, the Galileo II, included dead-reckoning software, created by the Informatics General Corp., which was used to direct the plane's monitoring equipment for experiments, 1985.
CBI Image of the Day: Assembly of the Control Data Corporation series 3000, working with the wiring, and wiring harnesses, at the McGill Building manufacturing building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1962.
PACER, Electronic Associates' digital computer, added to their line of analog and hybrid computers. The computer had broad applications in the R&D and process control field, ca. 1970s.
The image is emblematic of the computer industry marketing male gendered/privileged environments, women models, & inuendo & seduction to try to sell computing & software systems.
CBI Image of the Day: A computer technician standing next to a large memory disk, which is so highly polished that her image is prominently reflected, ca. 1971.
CBI Image o' Day. Late 1950s. View of Floating Indexed Point (FLIP) back panel wiring and register display. FLIP was hardware for use with the GEORGE computer which was designed and built at the Argonne Nat. FLIP and GEORGE communicated via sense and interrupt registers. #tech#technology#computer#illinois#electricalengineering#science#lab#history @histodons