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Whirlwind I

Computer
Whirlwind I was a Cold War-era vacuum tube computer developed by the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory for the U.S. Navy. Operational in 1951, it was among the first digital electronic computers that operated in real-time for output, and the first... Wikipedia
Date introduced: April 20, 1951
Generation: 1st
Memory: Core memory, 1 kiloword of 16 bits words (2 kilobytes). Ultimately 2048 words (4KB)
Power: More than 100 kW
Successor: TX-0, TX-2, DEC PDP-1