harvard mark ii machine

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harvard mark ii machine - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Harvard Mark II Machine
  
     <computer, history> A relay-based computer designed and
     built by Howard Aiken, with support from IBM, for the
     United States Navy's Naval Proving Ground, between 1942 -
     1947.  The Harvard Mark II was the second in a series of four
     electro-mechanical computers that were forerunners of the
     ENIAC.
  
     Harvard machines  (http://hoc.co.umist.ac.uk/storylines/compdev/electromechanical/harvardmarkmachines.html)
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