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Unloading at Cointrin Airport of the IBM 709 computer
CERN's first computer, a huge vacuum-tube Ferranti Mercury, was installed in building 2 in 1958. With its 60 microsecond clock cycle, it was a million times slower than today's big computers. The Mercury took 3 months to install and filled a huge room, even so, its computational ability di...
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| Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/40014 |