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page 1Computer-related introductions in 1958

modem
thumb|Acoustic coupler modems used a telephone handset as the audio medium, with the user dialing the desired number and then pressing the handset into the modem to complete the connection. These systems generally operated at a speed of 300 bits per second.
ALGOL
ALGOL (; short for "Algorithmic Language") is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in 1958. ALGOL heavily influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in textbooks and academic sources for more than thirty years.
Semi-Automatic Ground Environment
historic computer network
IBM 709
vacuum tube computer system
EDSAC 2
early computer from 1958
UNIVAC II
vacuum tube commercial computer released in 1958