{"id":15060,"date":"2019-08-07T23:21:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T23:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/ibm-presents-harvard-the-mark-i-3\/"},"modified":"2019-08-07T23:21:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T23:21:56","slug":"ibm-presents-harvard-the-mark-i-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/ibm-presents-harvard-the-mark-i-3\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Presents Harvard the Mark I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1942 alignleft\" title=\"IBM ASCC, Harvard Mark I\" alt=\"IBM ASCC, Harvard Mark I\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/97e65__marki_ascc-300x238.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/marki_ascc-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/marki_ascc.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>August 7, 1944<\/p>\n<p>IBM presents Harvard University their Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), an electro-mechanical computer devised by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_H._Aiken\" target=\"_blank\">Howard H. Aiken<\/a> and built by IBM. Harvard renamed the ASCC the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harvard_Mark_I\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard Mark I<\/a>. The Mark I was not significant for technological advances, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/2012\/02\/15\/eniac-dedicated\/\" target=\"_blank\">fully-electronic ENIAC<\/a> was being constructed when the Mark I was being put into service. However, the Mark I was the first large-scale digital calculator ever built and served to spark the desire for more and better computing machines.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/08\/07\/ibm-presents-harvard-the-mark-i\/\">IBM Presents Harvard the Mark I<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/97e65__12725163.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/12725163\">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>August 7, 1944 IBM presents Harvard University their Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), an electro-mechanical computer devised by Howard H. Aiken and built by IBM. Harvard renamed the ASCC the Harvard Mark I. The Mark I was not significant for technological advances, as the fully-electronic ENIAC was being constructed when the Mark I was being [&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":[1482,1454,186],"class_list":["post-15060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-harvard","tag-mark","tag-presents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15060"}],"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=15060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}