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BINAC

August 1949 , USA


P. Eckert and J. Mauchly


papers & manuals

hardware

software

Description

Eckert and Mauchly formed their own company and constructed the first dual processor computer: the BINAC, for the US navy. The two processors executed the same operations in parallel to enhance the reliability of calculations(1)

Specifications

Codename:  
CPU:  
CPU speed  
FPU:  
motherboard RAM:  
maximum RAM  
number of sockets  
minimum speed  
ROM  
L1 cache  
L2 cache  
data path  
busspeed  
SCSI  
slots  
Serial Ports  
Parallel Ports
Floppy  
HD  
CD-ROM  
Monitor  
Sound Output  
Sound Input
Ethernet

 

 
Type ID
power  
Weight  
Dimensions  
Min System Software  
Max System Software
OS / software  
Input devices  
introduced  
terminated  
initial price  

 

Chronology

 

 

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Footnotes & References

 

1 http://histoire.info.online.fr/ordinateurs.html
2