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[[Image:Johnniac.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Johnniac computer, Computer History Museum, California]] |
[[Image:Johnniac.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Johnniac computer, Computer History Museum, California]] |
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The '''JOHNNIAC''' |
The '''JOHNNIAC''' is an early computer built in 1953 by the [[RAND Corporation]] (not [[Remington Rand]], maker of the contemporaneous [[UNIVAC I]] computer) and based on the [[von Neumann architecture]] that had been pioneered on the [[IAS machine]]. It was named in honor of von Neumann, short for ''[[John von Neumann|'''John''' von Neumann]] '''N'''umerical '''I'''ntegrator and '''A'''utomatic '''C'''omputer''.{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P10pDwAAQBAJ&q=JOHNNIAC+1953&pg=PA120|title=Birthing the Computer: From Drums to Cores|last=Kaisler|first=Stephen H.|date=2017-06-20|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=9781443896252|pages=120|language=en|chapter=Chapter Six JOHNNIAC}} |
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After being rescued from the scrap heap twice,{{clarification needed|date=February 2025}} the machine is currently at the [[Computer History Museum]] in [[Mountain View, California]].{{Cite web |date=1955 |title=Search catalog - Online collections - CHM |url=https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/search-catalog/search/keyword:johnniac-27826/ |access-date=2026-01-07 |website=www.computerhistory.org |language=en}} |
After being rescued from the scrap heap twice,{{clarification needed|date=February 2025}} the machine is currently at the [[Computer History Museum]] in [[Mountain View, California]].{{Cite web |date=1955 |title=Search catalog - Online collections - CHM |url=https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/search-catalog/search/keyword:johnniac-27826/ |access-date=2026-01-07 |website=www.computerhistory.org |language=en}} |
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