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The ORDVAC or Ordnance Discrete Variable Automatic Computer, an early computer built by the University of Illinois for the Ballistics Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, was based on the IAS architecture developed by John von Neumann, which came to be known as the von Neumann architecture.
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ORDVAC and Automatic
The SILLIAC ( Sydney version of the Illinois Automatic Computer, i. e. the Sydney ILLIAC ), an early computer built by the University of Sydney, Australia, was based on the ILLIAC and ORDVAC computers developed at the University of Illinois, which in turn were based on the IAS architecture developed by John von Neumann.
ORDVAC and Computer
He continued to work summers with U-Illinois researchers in the check-out of the ORDVAC Computer at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.
The BRLESC I ( Ballistic Research Laboratories Electronic Scientific Computer ) was a first-generation electronic computer built by the United States Army's Ballistics Research Laboratory ( BRL ) at Aberdeen Proving Ground with assistance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), and was designed to take over the computational workload of EDVAC and ORDVAC, which themselves were successors of ENIAC.
ORDVAC and computer
The ORDVAC was the first computer to have a compiler.
The later SILLIAC computer was a copy of the ORDVAC / ILLIAC series.
ORDVAC and built
ORDVAC was the first of two computers built under contract at the University of Illinois.
ILLIAC I was built at the University of Illinois based on the same design as the ORDVAC.
ORDVAC and by
After ORDVAC was moved to Aberdeen, it was used remotely by telephone by the University of Illinois for up to eight hours per night.
Wheeler discusses the EDSAC project, the influence of EDSAC on the ILLIAC, the ORDVAC, and the IBM 701 computers, as well as visits to Cambridge by Douglas Hartree, Nelson Blackman ( of ONR ), Peter Naur, Aad van Wijngarden, Arthur van der Poel, Friedrich Bauer, and Louis Couffignal.
ORDVAC and University
J. P. Nash of the University of Illinois was a developer of both the ORDVAC and of the university's own identical copy, the ILLIAC, which was later renamed the ILLIAC I. Donald B. Gillies assisted in the checkout of ORDVAC at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
When ORDVAC was completed, it was tested at the University of Illinois and then disassembled and shipped to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.
ORDVAC and for
ORDVAC and its successor at Aberdeen Proving Ground, BRLESC, used their own unique notation for hexadecimal numbers.
BRLESC and its predecessor, ORDVAC, used their own unique notation for hexadecimal numbers.
ORDVAC and at
ORDVAC became operational in the Spring of 1951 at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.
* ORDVAC documentation at bitsavers. org
ORDVAC and Aberdeen
* ORDVAC ( Aberdeen Proving Ground )
ORDVAC and was
ORDVAC was completed the spring of 1951 and checked out in the summer.
ORDVAC and on
Wheeler discusses projects that were run on EDSAC, user-oriented programming methods, and the influence of EDSAC on the ILLIAC, the ORDVAC, and the IBM 701.
Wheeler discusses projects that were run on EDSAC, user-oriented programming methods, and the influence of EDSAC on the ILLIAC, the ORDVAC, and the IBM 701.
ORDVAC and .
Unlike the other computers of its era, the ORDVAC and ILLIAC I were twins and could exchange programs with each other.
The ORDVAC used 2178 vacuum tubes.
Unlike most computers of its era, the ILLIAC I and ORDVAC computers were twin copies of the same design, with software compatibility.
Ordnance and Automatic
To deceive the enemy, the Ordnance Department decided to call it The US Automatic Pistol, Caliber. 30, Model of 1918.
Ordnance and early
ASROC started development as the Rocket Assisted Torpedo ( RAT ) program by the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake in the early 1950 to develop as surface warship ASW weapon counter to the new post-WWII submarines which ran quieter, at much higher speed and could attack from much longer range with high speed homing torpedoes.
The name, which appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1822, was later applied to the early 20th century Camden Town Group of artists and the London borough of Camden, created in 1965.
This includes the first Ordnance Surveys of Ireland, conducted in the early 19th century.
He worked at the Black Hills Ordnance Depot ( BHOD ) and helped construct Fort Randall Dam ; his job often required the family to resettle during Brokaw's early childhood.
The land south of the Foscote Private Hospital in Calthorpe and Easington farm were mostly open farmland until the early 1960s as shown by the Ordnance Survey maps of 1964, 1955 and 1947.
Funded by Army Ordnance in 1942, JPL's early efforts would eventually involve technologies beyond those of aerodynamics and propellant chemistry.
However, many hitherto unknown ringforts have been found thanks to early Ordnance Survey maps, aerial photography, and the archaeological work that has accompanied large road-building programs.
The Crusader's mobility made it a favourite of British tank crews and its Ordnance QF 6 pounder main gun made it more than a match for the early Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks it faced in combat.
* Elswick Ordnance Company, a British armaments and ammunition manufacturer of the late 19th – early 20th century
The Royal Ordnance Factory ROF Bridgwater was constructed early in World War II for the Ministry of Supply.
Born in Nottingham, Sandby joined the topographical drawing room of the Board of Ordnance at the Tower of London in the early 1740s and in 1747 was tasked as chief draughtsman with mapping the remote Scottish Highlands-a " compleat and accurate survey of Scotland ".
This was a tumulus at Rowley Hill Farm, Ordnance Survey reference GR90251180, approximately, which was still prominent in the 18th century and still discernible in the early 20th.
* In the United Kingdom, each field has or had a field name often seen on old parish maps, tithe maps and early and pre Ordnance Survey maps.
During the interwar period the 18-pounder formed the basis of early versions of the equally famous Ordnance QF 25 pounder, which would form the basis of the British artillery forces during and after World War II, in much the same fashion as the 18-pounder had during World War I.
At the request of the governor, he had accepted the commission and was instrumental in the planning of the attack on Fort Sumter in early 1861 as a member of the Ordnance Board.
Ben More's north side contains a long-lasting snow patch, which – uniquely in the Southern Highlands – is named on a 1: 25000 Ordnance Survey map, and is called the ( crooked wreath ), on account of the shape it forms in late spring / early summer.
Just a kilometre north of the monument, on top of Beacon Hill, is the toposcope made in the early twentieth century by the Cadbury family, standing next to the Ordnance Survey triangulation point.
The latter explanation is suggested by Victorian Ordnance Survey maps which show the ancient site of an early Christian chapel dedicated to St. Margaret.
For instance the early nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland ( 1837 – 42 ) locate the Purgatory on Saints Island.
The Ordnance Survey map from the early 1880s shows just how isolated the ancient Ely village was from the rest of Cardiff.
British tanks in the early years of World War II relied on high-velocity anti-tank guns such as the Ordnance QF 2 pounder and Ordnance QF 6 pounder for their primary armament.
Alfred Wainwright noted that early additions of the Ordnance Survey maps stated only the height of the south west top ( 2, 756 ft ) and recorded his calculation of the true height of the fell.
As early as 28 June 1940, a terror bombing rationale had been advanced for the A4 ( V-2 rocket ) being developed at a meeting between Army Ordnance Chief Emil Leeb and Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht, Walther von Brauchitsch.
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