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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 96. Chapters: History of computing hardware, Analytical Engine, Deep Blue, Antikythera mechanism, ENIAC, Atanasoff-Berry Computer, Earth Simulator, EDVAC, Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, Whirlwind, TX-2, BINAC, TX-0, Z3, BARK, Watson, Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine, Manchester Mark 1, ILLIAC IV, DRTE Computer, IBM Roadrunner, Reservisor, Harvard Mark I, ReserVec, DATAR, Bomba, Fastra II, Hydra, WITCH, UTEC, APEXC, CSIRAC, Automatic Computing Engine, Z4, Goodyear MPP, Harwell CADET, IBM 7950 Harvest, IBM NORC, Finite element machine, Jaguar, EFF DES cracker, IBM SSEC, Z1, ILLIAC II, Pilot ACE, SEAC, DASK, CAP computer, Lehmer sieve, ASCI Red, IBM Sequoia, System X, Columbia, CER-10, SWAC, Deep Thought, Harvard Mark II, Harvard Mark III, MANIAC II, BRLESC, CALDIC, ASCI Blue Pacific, Belle, ASC Purple, FUJIC, Z2, Datasaab D2, Wisconsin Integrally Synchronized Computer, ChipTest, Nebulae, Oslo Analyzer, Content Addressable Parallel Processor, SAPO, ILLIAC III, ASCI Blue Mountain, STARAN, DYSEAC, ARRA, Harvard Mark IV, HiTech, MANIAC III, Cielo, Water integrator, RAYDAC, Pleiades, CER-20, CER-200, CER-202. Excerpt: The history of computing hardware is the record of the ongoing effort to make computer hardware faster, cheaper, and capable of storing more data. Computing hardware evolved from machines that needed separate manual action to perform each arithmetic operation, to punched card machines, and then to stored-program computers. The history of stored-program computers relates first to computer architecture, that is, the organization of the units to perform input and output, to store data and to operate as an integrated mechanism (see block diagram to the right). Secondly, this is a history of the electronic components and mechanical devices that comprise these units. Finally, we describe the continuing...
