Computer engineers working on Cray Supercomputers in 1983Roger Ressmeyer/CORBIS In 1833, seventeen-year-old Ada Lovelace met Charles Babbage at a party, where the mathematician introduced the young woman to his clockwork calculating machine.In Babbage's words, Lovelace was able to grasp "the most ...
It held the record as the fastest computer from 1964-1969.Cray's pastimes included digging tunnels under his home. He claimed that elves would visit him while digging his tunnels and they would provide solutions to his design problems. Read More 5 2 Copy to Share This Entry Ed Sullivan...
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Computer engineers working on Cray Supercomputers in 1983Roger Ressmeyer/CORBIS In 1833, seventeen-year-old Ada Lovelace met Charles Babbage at a party, where the mathematician introduced the young woman to his clockwork calculating machine.In Babbage's words, Lovelace was able to grasp "the most...