NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- When it was first introduced half a century ago, the Whirlwind computer, the first digital computer capable of displaying real-time text and graphics on a video terminal, ushered ...

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Debugging computers in the 1950s sounds like it wasn’t an easy task. That’s one of the interesting facts from this fascinating talk by [Guy Fedorkow] about the Whirlwind, one of the first digital ...

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Link: Section 2: The emergence of computer graphics. The evolution of the digital computer continued with the Whirlwind computer. Development of the Whirlwind began in 1945 under the leadership of Jay ...