This collection consists of over 2,516 items, housed in 31 document boxes. The material is arranged into chronological order and covers the project dates of l945- l959. The items were originally ...

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- When it was first introduced half a century ago, the Whirlwind computer, the first digital computer capable of displaying real-time text and graphics on a video terminal, ushered ...

1955: Computer pioneer Doug Ross demonstrates the Director tape for MIT’s Whirlwind machine. It's a new idea: a permanent set of instructions on how the computer should operate. Six years in the ...

Debugging computers in the 1950s sounds like it wasn’t an easy task. That’s one of the interesting facts from this fascinating talk by [Guy Fedorkow] about the Whirlwind, one of the first digital ...

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This light-sensing pointing device, called a "light gun," was used with the Whirlwind computer. It has an "L" shaped cylindrical body of aluminum with a gray hammertone finish. There is a micro switch ...