{"id":14549,"date":"2018-05-07T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/ibm-704-introduced-2\/"},"modified":"2018-05-07T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T23:16:09","slug":"ibm-704-introduced-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/ibm-704-introduced-2\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM 704 Introduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1386\" title=\"IBM 704\" alt=\"IBM 704\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/50341__Ibm704-300x196.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/50341__Ibm704-300x196.gif 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Ibm704.gif 355w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>May 7, 1954<\/p>\n<p>IBM announces the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_704\" target=\"_blank\">IBM 704 Data Processing System<\/a>, the world\u2019s first mass produced computer to feature floating point arithmetic hardware. Besides this ultra-geeky distinction, <a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/ibm\/history\/exhibits\/mainframe\/mainframe_PP704.html\" target=\"_blank\">the IBM 704<\/a> will leave its mark in computer history before it is discontinued on April 7, 1960. Both the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fortran\" target=\"_blank\">FORTRAN<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LISP\" target=\"_blank\">LISP<\/a> programming languages were first developed for the IBM 704, as well as the first music application, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MUSIC-N\" target=\"_blank\">MUSIC<\/a>. Physicist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Larry_Kelly%2C_Jr\" target=\"_blank\">John Larry Kelly, Jr.<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bell_Labs\" target=\"_blank\">Bell Labs<\/a> will synthesize speech for the first time in history on an IBM 704. Not bad for a mainframe.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/05\/07\/ibm-704-introduced\/\">IBM 704 Introduced<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/05\/07\/ibm-704-introduced\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 7, 1954 IBM announces the IBM 704 Data Processing System, the world\u2019s first mass produced computer to feature floating point arithmetic hardware. Besides this ultra-geeky distinction, the IBM 704 will leave its mark in computer history before it is discontinued on April 7, 1960. Both the FORTRAN and LISP programming languages were first developed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[926],"class_list":["post-14549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-introduced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}