ONR Digital Computer Newsletter (1949-64)

Another ONR document, also courtesy of bitsavers:

"A Survey Of Automatic Digital Computers 1953"

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_onrASurveyomputers1953...

This document is a list of all the computers in the world at the time, and they are measured by the following metrics:

Square feet of floor area, kilowatts of power required, and how many people it takes to operate.

I found that because there was a quote in "Turing's Cathedral" by George Dyson:

"In March of 1953, there were 53 kilobytes of high-speed random-access memory on planet Earth"

We've come a long way from slide rules.

Historically this was a great funding agency, but in recent years, it funds only graduate students. The experience of senior scientists lacks from the majority or programs.

This is such a great resource. Thank you for posting it.