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Simon (computer)

Simon was a relay-based electromechanical computer, described by Edmund Berkeley in a series of thirteen construction articles in Radio-Electronics magazine, from October 1950. Intended for the educational purpose of demonstrating the concept of a digital computer, it could not be used for any significant practical computation since it handled only…

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1950; 76 years ago (1950)

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Simon (computer)

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Simon (computer)

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