SIXTY YEARS OF GROWTH IN COMPUTING AND DATA PROCESSING CAPABILITY

Abstract

A graph is presented that shows a 1:1,000,000 increase in the single- address speed of representative machines at particular points between 1900 and 1960, beginning with tabulating equipment and continuing to such electronic data processing machines as STRETCH and LARC. A second graph pictures the time-phased development of speed and storage capacity between 1951 and 1960, the single- address speed in thousands of operations per second being plotted against the directly addressable storage in thousands of characters; a character is defined as the total number of bits in the directly addressable storage divided by six. In most cases the addition of increments of speed and storage capacity did not take place simultaneously.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 08, 1960
Accession Number
AD0616579

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People

  • R. L. Petruschell

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  • RAND Corporation

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  • Microelectronics