Harvard Mark IV

The Harvard Mark IV was an electronic stored-program computer built by Harvard University under the supervision of Howard Aiken for the United States Air Force.

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Harvard University - Howard Aiken - United States Air Force

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The Mark IV was all electronic. The Mark IV used magnetic drum and had 200 registers of ferrite magnetic core memory (one of the first computers to do so). It separated the storage of data and instructions in what is known as the Harvard architecture.

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Electronic - Magnetic drum - Magnetic core memory - Harvard architecture

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The Mark IV was finished in 1952. It was built for the US Air Force but it stayed at Harvard, where the Air Force used it extensively.

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1952 - US Air Force

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