Whirlwind (computer) | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 14/01/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
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00:00:49 1 Background
00:03:24 2 Technical description
00:03:34 2.1 Design and construction
00:07:17 2.2 The memory subsystem
00:11:54 2.3 Magnetic core memory
00:15:08 3 Air defense networks
00:16:08 4 Legacy
00:18:02 5 See also



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Whirlwind I was a Cold War-era vacuum tube computer developed by the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory for the U.S. Navy. It was among the first digital electronic computers that operated in real-time for output, and the first that was not simply an electronic replacement of older mechanical systems.
It was one of the first computers to calculate in parallel (rather than serial), and was the first to use magnetic core memory.
Its development led directly to the Whirlwind II design used as the basis for the United States Air Force SAGE air defense system, and indirectly to almost all business computers and minicomputers in the 1960s.