The first batch of digital computers emerge directly following WWII. The hallmark of this generation is uniqueness: no two computers are the same. However, there is a machine that bucks that trend. The IAS Machine, built in Princeton in the late 1940s, served as the inspiration for at least a dozen later computers. But how similar were these Princeton-class computers? What exactly was so special about the IAS Machine? And how does good 'ol Johnny von Neumann get tied up in all of this? <a href= "https://open.substack.com/pub/theeasternborder/p/help-out-a-latvian-war-journalist?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">The Eastern Boarder map fundraiser</a> Selected Sources: Bigelow Oral History - <a href= "https://www.si.edu/media/NMAH/NMAH-AC0196_bige710120.pdf" rel= "noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.si.edu/media/NMAH/NMAH-AC0196_bige710120.pdf</a> Prelin IAS Machine Report - https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/library/Prelim_Disc_Logical_Design.pdf

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