Title
SEAC videoCatalog Number
102706053Type
Moving imageDescription
This DVD covers topics including the SEAC team, why SEAC was built, applications, imaging, users, influence, components, input/output, and memory.The Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) was one of the earliest electronic, stored-program digital computers in the United States. It was completed in 1950 by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards and used 1,500 vacuum tubes and had 512 45-bit words of memory. Until it was retired in 1964, it ran important problems in meteorology, national defense, mathematics, physics and digital imaging.
This presentation features key individuals from the SEAC project, design engineers Ruth Hauter Cahn, Robert Elbourn, Sidney Greenwald and Russell Kirsch. It is organized into 11 sections that address key questions about SEAC, for example, "What makes SEAC the first computer?," why it was built, its uses, its influence and how it was built and worked.
Date
2006Credits
Kirsch, Russell A.Format
DVDSubject
SEAC; SWAC (Standards Western Automatic Computer); NBS; hydrogen bomb; Digital imaging; delay line; diodes; SimulationLot Number
X6226.2012Related Records
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