On this day in 1980 the last IBM Stretch supercomputer was decommissioned at Brigham University. The IBM 7030 known as Stretch was IBM’s first transistorized supercomputer, the most …
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On this day in 1955 the first ever computer user group was founded. SHARE is a volunteer-run IBM user group that was founded by Los Angeles-based users of …
On this day in 1986 newspapers reported that after years of Japanese-American battles in electronics, American tech company IBM became the world’s first computer manufacturer to use a …
On this day in 1954 the first successful Fortran program runs. Fortran is a general-purpose, imperative programming language created by a group at IBM led by computer scientist …
On this day in 1890 the United States Census Bureau announced the current population of the country at that time which was over 62 million, a figure tabulated …