"EDVAC was delivered to the Ballistic Research Laboratory..." suggests that a main use was ballistics calculations, like ENIAC. But of course it invited many more application experiments since it was much more general purpose.
Dicklyon (
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05:31, 7 December 2021 (UTC)reply
34-bit or 44-bit?
Article contains both:
ultrasonic serial memory[1] capacity of 1,000 34-bit words
ultrasonic serial memory[1] capacity of 1,000 44-bit words
I changed 44-bit to 34-bit, since 34 at least appears in the cited source Automatic Digital Computers, as the size of multiplication operands. If the memory word size is different, I don't find that.
Dicklyon (
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05:29, 7 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I couldn't find which the "First Draft" uses. But the
Progress Report, page 3 says "computer". The Computer from Pascal to von Newman also says "computer". In the article where it talks about the contract, it says "calculator". Does the contract actually say "calculator"?
Bubba73You talkin' to me?04:22, 14 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Such a machine, which can not only carry out calculations of extremely complicated mathematical problems with essentially the speed of light, but which also can exercise some degree of free choice and initiative, is under construction at the University of Pennsylvania for the Ballistic Research Laboratories at Aberdeen, Md.[1]
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