Early Computing and Its Impact on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

摘要

In November, 1952 some of the first staff members from the newly formed Livermore Laboratory traveled to Philadelphia to get acquainted with their still unshipped 13-ton Univac. What they saw bore scant resemblance to what todays notebook computer buyer places on his or her desk. Besides the extraordinary reduction in size, todays computers come with a variety of data entry and output systems: A keyboard that enters information directly into the billion digits of central memory, a screen that can display a full range of colored images, a mouse to alter text or images, ports to a printer or video device, ports to record or load data previously recorded either on this machine or elsewhere onto compact disks or memory sticks, and network connections to vast resources of information on the internet.