Serial computers

Early British cryptanalysis computer

first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer

thumb|275px|The EDVAC as installed in Building 328 at the Ballistic Research Laboratory EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was one of the earliest electronic computers. It was built by Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Along with ORDVAC, it was a successor to the ENIAC. Unlike ENIAC, it was binary rather than decimal, and was designed to be a stored-program computer.

The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) was an early British computer. Inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, the machine was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England to provide a service to the university. EDSAC was the second electronic digital stored-program computer, after the Manchester Mark 1, to go into regular service.

first electronic stored-program computer

early electronic digital computing device

The PDP-8 is a family of 12-bit minicomputers that was produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Launched in 1965, it was the first minicomputer to sell for under $20,000, and the $25,000 mark for a complete system would later be a defining characteristic of the minicomputer class. Over 50,000 units were sold during the model's lifetime.

English stored-program computer, 1949

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special purpose computer that played the game of Nim

One of the world's first commercially available general-purpose digital computers

The HP-35 was Hewlett-Packard's first pocket calculator and the world's first scientific pocket calculator: a calculator with trigonometric and exponential functions. It was introduced in 1972.

British early electronic serial stored-program computer

thumb|upright=1.2|A program running in a Kenbak-1 IDE/emulator. Click to start animation. Note that the program's sole use is to show lights being shifted. thumb|Kenbakuino, an Arduino-based Kenbak-1 emulator

1951 computer

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BINAC (Binary Automatic Computer) is an early electronic computer that was designed for Northrop Aircraft Company by the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC) in 1949. Eckert and Mauchly had started the design of EDVAC at the University of Pennsylvania, but chose to leave and start EMCC, the first computer company in the United States. BINAC was their first product, the first stored-program computer in the United States; BINAC is also sometimes claimed to be the world's first commercial digital computer even though it was limited in scope and never fully functional after delivery.

one of the first 8 bit microprocessors

first-generation electronic computer built in 1950

1956 computer design

thumb|Librascope LGP-30 (with cover in place). thumb|An LGP-30 in use at Manhattan College (1965). thumb|250px|LGP-30 at The Computer Museum, Boston with cover removed. Control panel is at top center, to the left of the memory drum. The LGP-30, standing for Librascope General Purpose and then Librascope General Precision, is an early off-the-shelf computer. It was manufactured by the Librascope company of Glendale, California (a division of General Precision Inc.), and sold and serviced by the Royal Precision Electronic Computer Company, a joint venture with the Royal McBee division of the Roy

computer with a bit- or digit-serial architecture

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