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‘The first large-scale general-purpose automatic digital computer’

Post author By Kathy E. Gill
Post date 7 August 2022
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Mark 1 — The Mark 1/ASCC in Harvard's Cruft Laboratory, April 1948. IBM.

The Mark 1 dedication at Harvard was on 07 August 1944.

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The United States drops a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

Post author By Kathy E. Gill
Post date 6 August 2022
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Bombing Nagasaki, — The atomic cloud rising over Nagasaki, Japan. National Archives Identifier 535795.

The US is “the first and only nation” to use a nuclear weapon. Russia is “the first state to use nuclear threats as part of a war of expansion.”

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The Navy recalls retired Commander Grace Hopper

Post author By Kathy Gill
Post date 1 August 2022
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It's easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission.

“Amazing Grace” served her second stint in the Navy from August 1967 to August 1986.

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