Harvard Mark IV
| Developer | Howard Aiken |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Harvard University |
| Release date | 1952 |
| Predecessor | Harvard Mark III |
The Harvard Mark IV was an electronic
Howard Aiken for the United States Air Force. The computer was finished being built in 1952.[1]
It stayed at Harvard, where the Air Force used it extensively.
The Mark IV was all electronic. The Mark IV used magnetic drum and had 200 registers of ferrite magnetic-core memory (one of the first computers to do so). It separated the storage of data and instructions in what is now sometimes referred to as the Harvard architecture although that term was not coined until the 1970s (in the context of microcontrollers).[2]
See also
References
- ^ Research, United States Office of Naval (1953). A survey of automatic digital computers. Office of Naval Research, Dept. of the Navy. p. 43.
- S2CID 252018052.
Further reading
- Williams, Michael R. (1997). A History of Computing Technology. ISBN 0-8186-7739-2.
External links
- Harvard Mark IV 64-bit Magnetic Shift Register at ComputerHistory.org
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