old IBM calculator questions

From: Max Eskin <maxeskin_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat Oct 24 17:00:20 1998

What kind of speed gain?
>
>On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Max Eskin wrote:
>
>> Here are a couple of questions inspired by my encounter with the
>> IBM Automatic Sequence-Controlled Calculator Mark I.
>> For one thing, if this thing could perform all of the basic
>> calculations to many decimal places in a short time, why build an
>> ENIAC, many times bigger, and less reliable, when this machine
>> could have been scaled if necessary? It had been in development, and
>> I'm sure the military was working on relay-based machines as well.
>> So why the choice of digital with vacuum tubes?
>
>Speed for one.
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