[COFF] 70 years of commercial computing

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Thu Jun 17 23:44:59 AEST 2021


Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:

> Seen in my calendar yesterday:
>
>   Jun 15  UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
>
> 70 years!  And Unix has been around for nearly 52 of those years.

And the LEO computer based on EDSAC ran its first demo program on 15th Feb
1951: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)

Tony.
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