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Posted by : Sachin Kumar Sahu
January 01, 1970
IBM´s Selective Sequence Electronic
Calculator computed scientific data in public display near the company´s
Manhattan headquarters. Before its decommissioning in 1952, the SSEC
produced the moon-position tables used for plotting the course of the
1969 Apollo flight to the moon.
Speed - 50 multiplications per second
Input/output: cards, punched tape
Memory type: punched tape, vacuum tubes, relays
Technology: 20,000 relays, 12,500 vacuum tubes
Floor space: 25 feet by 40 feet
Project leader: Wallace Eckert
Source: - www.computerhistory.org