IBM 701 COMPUTER

The 701 installation at General Motors Research Laboratories. (Courtesy George F. Ryckman.)

IBM 701 COMPUTER

IBM 701 COMPUTER

CPC IBM Card Programmed Calculator

$1800/month150 three-address instructions per minute.

IBM 701$18000/month

100X FASTER

IBM 701 COMPUTER

first stored-program machine installed in GM.

• Torsional vibration studies,

• advanced bearing-load calculations,

• propeller design and data reduction,

• harmonic analysis with feedback

checking,

• automatic-advance cams on distributors,

• pump pressure-wave analysis,

• Turbine blade properties,

• fatigue-data analysis,

• hypoid gear design.

IBM 701 COMPUTER

750,000 hourly employment force

actuarial and statistical

IBM 701 COMPUTER

BUT MTBF=3.5h

cathode-ray-tube electro static main memory

IBM 701 COMPUTER

Regional Assembly Language

SPEEDCODE ACOM

transformed the address fixed-point arithmetic machine into a stream-lined three-address floating-point system.

IBM 701 COMPUTER

“compilers”macroprocessorsREAD&PRINT

IBM 701 COMPUTER

1955

INPUT/OUTPUT SYSTEM

IBM 701 COMPUTER