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