Description

The digital collection contains images and documents related to John Vincent Atanasoff, Clifford Berry, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC), and the court case that established the ABC as the first electronic digital computer. These materials include photographs and drawings of the original ABC, two manuscripts written by Atanasoff regarding the computer's design and functionality, a manual for it written by Berry, and Berry's master's thesis about the computer. The collection also contains documents pertaining to the court case of Honeywell, Inc. v. Sperry-Rand, specifically the decision and Atanasoff's deposition.

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Time Span

1930~ to 1998
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Top Subjects

electronic digital computers computers inventions computer engineering vacuum-tubes

Locations

iowa--story county iowa iowa--ames maryland--u.s. naval ordnance laboratory test facility washington (d.c.)

Genre

correspondence photographs notes (documents) technical drawings design drawings

Content

94 IMAGE/JPEG
1 VIDEO/VND.YOUTUBE.YT
95 TOTAL ITEMS
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