This is a classic article from Â鶹´«Ã½’s archive, republished as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations
ON SHOW in London on 4 December, fresh from a debut in Paris, was a new American electronic digital computer, the Burroughs E 101. This machine is no bigger than a desk, and it is in fact operated by someone sitting at its keyboard. In size, cost and performance it fills a gap between the hand-operated, mechanical “adding machines” on the one hand, and the full-scale electronic computers on the other.
The instructions for any calculation are set up in the desired sequence…
