Today in Tech – 1944

By Community Team

On this day in 1944 the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator or ASCC was formally presented to Harvard University by then IBM president Thomas J. Watson Sr. The ASCC was a general purpose electromechanical computer that was devised by American physicist Howard Aiken and built by IBM. One of the earliest digital computers, it was a curious mix of punch card technology and simple electronics, and was used in the war effort during the latter part of World War II. Upon its transfer into Harvard, the ASCC was renamed the Harvard Mark I.

3 Responses

  1. Derek Robinson says:

    Is this part of the Nazi use of IBM tech that allowed the holocaust to take place? Shame on IBM.

    • Thomas Hans Hürlimann says:

      Das glaube ich NICHT das die USA denn NAZI den Mark I verkauft haben .Auch zeitlich passt das nicht, denn der Holocaust begann schon viel früher, in den frühen 1930 Jahre.

  2. Pierre Chalopin says:

    Probably, germans ans US americans had a great experience in businesses, remember GM with Opel and Ford.