Word: system
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Council officers, however, have extended a special invitation to men interested in working with the Council or on a committee. Under the present system committees, composed of a council member and a number of students study a particular problem in detail during the year and make a report on which the council can take action...
...memory system" capable of storing 64,000 digits and leading a computing machine through a complex mathematical problem of 4000 steps was shown at the unveiling of Harvard University's new Mark III calculating machine September...
This novel "memory system," which enables Mark III to operate 20 times faster than Mark II, completed less than two years ago, combines mechanical relay, and electronic systems...
...memory system" consists of eight storage drums and a sequencing drum. Problems are solved by feeding information on a magnetic tape to the sequencing drum which in turn "commands" the computing section to accomplish the desired operations with the numbers in the storage drum. The results then come out of the machine on another magnetic tape...
Both the information for carrying out given operations and the numbers with which the operations are performed are represented by small magnetic spots on the surface of the rapidly rotating drums. An elaborate system of recorders and play-backs "circulate" the information between the drums and other parts of the machine...