Picture via Facebook group At the Controls.
Jet propulsion engineer Emma Davis
working with MATH-MATIC by Grace Hopper
to model gas flow in a turbofan aircraft engine.
Computer:
UNIVAC II by Sperry Rand (1959);
Lockheed Aircraft Company, Marietta, Georgia 1960s.
Word size: 72 bits (twelve 6-bit characters).
Clock rate: 2.25 MHz.
Speed: 3000 operations per second.
Hardware: 5,200 vacuum tubes consuming 190 kW, 1,200 transistors, 18,000 crystal diodes.
Memory: 184,000 bits, ferrite core (tenfold improvement over the mercury delay-line tanks of the previous model).
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