The IBM 704 is the model name of a large digital mainframe computer introduced by IBM in 1954. Designed by John Backus and Gene Amdahl , it was the first mass-produced computer with …

2024年5月7日 · IBM announces the IBM 704 Data Processing System, the world’s first mass produced computer to feature floating point arithmetic hardware. Besides this ultra-geeky …

The first mass-produced computer with core memory and floating-point arithmetic, whose designers included John Backus, formerly of IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University …

Over the next decade, the 700 mainframes continued to feature more optimized memory devices — and faster processing times. With the 704, for instance, the customary Williams tube …

In 1954 IBM announced the 704 Data Processing System. Though the company did not designate it as a computer, it was the first commercially available computer to incorporate indexing and …

The IBM 704 became the dominant vaccuum-tube logic computer in the late 1950'ies. A 32K, 36-bit word memory was the largest available, but because of the cost of memory 8K and 16K …

…a machine in mind: the IBM 704, which had built-in floating-point math operations. That the 704 used floating-point representation made it especially useful for scientific work, and Backus …

2006年11月8日 · The IBM 704 Data Processing System was, in its most general sense, a computer. It was first announced to the public on May 4, 1957 and ceased to be available for …

The successor of the 701 was the index register-equipped IBM 704, introduced 4 years after the 701. The 704 was not compatible with the 701, however, as the 704 increased the size of …

2023年2月22日 · IBM 704 was a large digital mainframe computer introduced by IBM in 1954. It was the first mass-produced computer with hardware for floating-point arithmetic. The 704 …