JOHNNIAC
Sign in to savethumb|200px|right|Johnniac computer, Computer History Museum, California The JOHNNIAC was an early computer built in 1953 by the RAND Corporation (not Remington Rand, maker of the contemporaneous UNIVAC I computer) and based on the von Neumann architecture that had been pioneered on the IAS machine. It was named in honor of von Neumann, short for John von Neumann Numerical Integrator and Automatic Computer.
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thumb|200px|right|Johnniac computer, Computer History Museum, California The JOHNNIAC was an early computer built in 1953 by the RAND Corporation (not Remington Rand, maker of the contemporaneous UNIVAC I computer) and based on the von Neumann architecture that had been pioneered on the IAS machine. It was named in honor of von Neumann, short for John von Neumann Numerical Integrator and Automatic Computer.
After being rescued from the scrap heap twice, the machine is currently at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
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