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BRL
REPORT N0. 1115
MARCH 1961
Martin H. Weik
This report supersedes BRL Report No. 1010
Department of the Army Project No. 5803-06-002
Ordnance Management Structure Code No. 501011812
BALLISTIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MARYLAND
BRL 1961, inside cover sheet ASTIR AVAILABILITY NOTICE Qualified requestors may obtain copies of this report from ASTIA.
BRL 1961, starting page 0001 BALLISTIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES REPORT N0. 1115 March 1961 A THIRD SURVEY OF DOMESTIC ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTING SYSTEMS Martin H. Weik This report supersedes BRL Report No. 1010 (Public Bulletin 1119968, U. S. Department of Coerce, Office of Technical Services) Department of the Army Project No. 5B03-06-002 Ordnance Management Structure Code No. 501011812 ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MARYLAND [ page 0002 is blank]
BRL 1961, starting page 0003 BALLISTIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES REPORT N0. 1115 MWeik/vjc Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. March 1961 A THIRD SURVEY OF DOMESTIC ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTING SYSTEMS ABSTRACT
On behalf of the Computing Laboratory of the Ballistic Research Laboratories, the author wishes to extend his appreciation for the excellent spirit of cooperation displayed by the various representatives of government and industry who have devoted their time and effort in responding to the survey inquiries.
BRL 1961, starting page 0004 ACKNOWLEDGMENT
TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 9 PURPOSE OF THE SURVEY REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 SCOPE OF THE SURVEY REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 PROCESSING OF THE SURVEY DATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 INTERPRETATION OF THE SURVEY DATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 USE OF THE SURVEY REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 II. COMPUTING SYSTEMS DESCRIPTIONS System Page AF CRC . 14 ALWAC II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 ALWAC III E . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 AMOS IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 AN/ASQ 28(v) EDC . . . . . . . . . . 34 AN/ASQ 28(v) MDC . . . . . . . . . . 36 AN/FSQ 7 AN/FSQ 8 (SAGE) . . . . . . 40 AN/FSQ 31 (v) . . . . . . . . . . . 44 AN/FSQ 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 AN/MJQ 1 REDSTONE . . . . . . . . . 48 AN/TYK 4v COMPAC . . . . . . . . . 50 AN/TYK 6v BASICPAC . . . . . . . . . 52 AN/TYK 7v INFORMER . . . . . . . . . 54 AN/USQ 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 ASC 15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 ATHENA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 BENDIX CUBIC TRACKER . . . . . . . . 62 BENDIX D 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 BENDIX G 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 BENDIX G 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 BIZMAC I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 BIZMAC II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 BOGART. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 BRLESC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 BURROUGHS 204 . . . . . . . . . . . 108 BURROUGHS 205 . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 BURROUGHS 220 . . . . . . . . . . . 146 BURROUGHS D 103 . . . . . . . . . . . 166 BURROUGHS D 104 . . . . . . . . . . . 167 BURROUGHS D 105 . . . . . . . . . . . 168 BURROUGHS D 107 . . . . . . . . . . . 169 BURROUGHS D 201 . . . . . . . . . . . 170 BURROUGHS D 202 . . . . . . . . . . . 171 BURROUGHS D 203 . . . . . . . . . . . 172 BURROUGHS D 204 . . . . . . . . . . . 174 BURROUGHS D 208 . . . . . . . . . . . 176 BURROUGHS D 209 . . . . . . . . . . . 177 BURROUGHS E 101 . . . . . . . . . . . 178 BURROUGHS E 102 . . . . . . . . . . . 186 BURROUGHS E 103 . . . . . . . . . . . 190 CCC REAL TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 CDC 160. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 CDC 1604 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 CIRCLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 CUBIC AIR TRAFFIC . . . . . . . . . . 210 CUBIC TRACKER . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 CYCLONE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 DATAMATIC 1000 . . . . . . . . . . . 214 DE-60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 DIANA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 BRL 1961, starting page 0006 TABLE OF CONTENTS (CONTINUED) System Page DIGITRONIC CONVERTER . . . . . . . . . 230 DISTRIBUTAPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 DYSEAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 EDVAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 ELECOM 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 ELECOM 100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 ELECOM 120 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 ELECOM 125 125FP . . . . . . . . . . . 250 FADAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 FOSDIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 GENERAL ELECTRIC 100 ERMA . . . . . . 262 GENERAL ELECTRIC 210 . . . . . . . . . 264 GENERAL ELECTRIC 225 . . . . . . . . . 268 GENERAL ELECTRIC 250 . . . . . . . . . 270 GENERAL ELECTRIC 312 . . . . . . . . . 272 GENERAL MILLS AD/ECS . . . . . . . . . 274 GENERAL MILLS APSAC . . . . . . . . . 278 GEORGE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 GEOTECH AUTOMATIC . . . . . . . . . . 284 HAMPSHIRE CCC 500 . . . . . . . . . . 286 HAMPSHIRE TRTDS 932 . . . . . . . . . 288 HONEYWELL 290 . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 HONEYWELL 800 . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 HRB SINGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 HUGHES ADV AIRBORNE III . . . . . . . 300 HUGHES BM GUIDANCE . . . . . . . . . . 302 HUGHES D PAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 HUGHES DIGITAIR . . . . . . . . . . . 306 HUGHES LRI X . . . . . .. . . . . . . 308 HUGHES M 252 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 IBM 305 RAMAC . . . . . . . . . . . . 314 IBM 604 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 IBM 607 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336 IBM 608 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 IBM 609 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 IBM 610 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 IBM 632 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 IBM 650 RAMAC . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 IBM 701 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 IBM 702 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396 IBM 704 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404 IBM 705 I II . . . . . . . . . . . . .448 IBM 705 III . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482 IBM 709 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 IBM 1401 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526 System Page IBM 1410 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532 IBM 1620. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536 IBM 7070. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538 IBM 7074. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544 IBM 7080 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546 IBM 7090. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548 IBM CPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558 IBM STRETCH . . . . . . . . . . . . 560 ILLIAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566 INTELEX AIRLINE RESERVATION . . . . 570 ITT BANK LN PROC . . . . . . . . . . 572 ITT SPES 025 . . . . . . . . . . . . 574 JOHNNIAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576 JUKEBOX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578 LEEDS NORTHRUP 3000 . . . . . . . . 580 LEPRECHAUN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582 LGP 30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584 LIBRASCOPE 407 . . . . . . . . . . . 596 LIBRASCOPE AIR TRAFFIC . . . . . . . 598 LIBRASCOPE ASN 24 . . . . . . . . . 602 LIBRASCOPE CP 209 . . . . . . . . . 606 LIBRASCOPE MK 38 . . . . . . . . . . 608 LIBRASCOPE MK 130 . . . . . . . . . 610 LIBRATROL 500 . . . . . . . . . . . 614 LIBRATROL 1000 . . . . . . . . . . . 618 LINCOLN CG 24 . . . . . . . . . . . 620 LINCOLN TX 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 LINCOLN TX 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 626 LITTON C 7000 . . . . . . . . . . . 630 LITTON DATA ASSESSOR . . . . . . . . 632 LOGISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634 MAGNEFILE B . . . . . . . . . . . . 636 MAGNEFILE D . . . . . . . . . . . . 637 MANIAC I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638 MANIAC II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640 MANIAC III . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642 MERLIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644 MINIAC II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646 MISTIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648 MOBIDIC A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650 MOBIDIC B . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654 MOBIDIC C D & 7A . . . . . . . . . . 656 MODAC 404 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658 MODAC 410 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660 MODAC 414 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661 BRL 1961, starting page 0007 System Page MODAC 5014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662 MONROBOT III . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664 MONROBOT V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666 MONROBOT VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668 MONROBOT IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670 MONROBOT XI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672 MONROBOT MU . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674 NAREC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676 NATIONAL 102A . . . . . . . . . . . . 680 NATIONAL 102D . . . . . . . . . . 684 NATIONAL 107 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690 NATIONAL 304 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692 NATIONAL 315 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710 NATIONAL 390 . . . . . . . . . . , . . 714 NORC. 716 NORDEN VOTE TALLY . . . . . . . . . . 720 NUMERICORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724 OARAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726 OKLAHOMA UNIV . . . . . . . . . . . . 728 ORACLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730 ORDVAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734 PACKARD BELL 250 . . . . . . . . . . . 740 PENNSTAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746 PERK I II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750 PHILCO 1000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752 PHILCO 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754 PHILCO 3000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760 PHILCO CXPQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762 PROGRAMMED DATA PROCESSOR . . . . . . 764 RASTAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766 RASTAD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768 RCA 110 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770 RCA 200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772 RCA 300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773 RCA 301 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774 RCA 501 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778 RCA 601 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804 READIX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808 RECOMP I CP 266 . . . . . . . . . . . 816 RECOMP II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820 REPAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830 System Page RICE UNIVERSITY . . . . . . . . . . . 832 RPC 4000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834 RPC 9000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836 RW 300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838 RW 400 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842 SCRIBE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846 SEAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848 SPEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852 STORED PROGRAM DDA . . . . . . . . . 856 SWAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858 SYLVANIA S 9400 . . . . . . . . . . . 860 SYLVANIA UDOFTT . . . . . . . . . . . 862 TARGET INTERCEPT . . . . . . . . . . 866 TELEREGISTER MAGNETRONIC BID ASKED . . 868 TELEREGISTER MAGNETRONIC INVENTORY CONTROL 870 TELEREGISTER TELEFILE . . . . . . . . 872 TELEREGISTER UNIFIED AIRLINE . . . . 876 TRICE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882 UDEC I II III . . . . . . . . . . . . 884 UNIVAC 60. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 886 UNIVAC 120 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890 UNIVAC 490 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898 UNIVAC 1101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900 UNIVAC 1102 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902 UNIVAC 1103 1103A . . . . . . . . . . 904 UNIVAC 1105 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918 UNIVAC 1107 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 929 UNIVAC FILE 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . 932 UNIVAC FILE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 940 UNIVAC LARC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958 UNIVAC SOLID STATE 80/90 . . . . . . 962 UNIVAC STEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972 UNIVAC I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 976 UNIVAC II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 992 UNIVAC III . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002 UNIVERSAL DATA TRANS . . . . . . . . 1006 VERDAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1010 WESTINGHOUSE AIRBORNE . . . . . . . . 1012 WHIRLWIND II . . . . . . . . . . . . 1016 WISC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1020 WRU SEARCHING SELECTOR . . . . . . . 1022 BRL 1961, starting page 0008 TABLE of CONTENTS (CONTINUED) CHAPTER Page III.ANALYSIS AND TRENDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1026 DESIGNATION OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS . . . . . . . . . . . 1026 MANUFACTURERS OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS . . . . . . . . . . . 1026 APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS . . . . . .. . . . . . 1027 PROGRAMMING AND NUMERICAL SYSTEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027 ARITHMETIC UNITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029 STORAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029 INPUT................................................... 1031 OUTPUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1301 CIRCUIT ELEMENTS OF ENTIRE SYSTEMS . . . . . . . . . . 1032 CHECKING FEATURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033 POWER, SPACE, WEIGHT AND SITE PREPARATION . .. . . . . . 1034 PRODUCTION RECORDS . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 1035 COST, PRICE AND RENTAL RATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035 PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 1036 RELIABILITY, OPERATING EXPERIENCE AND TIME AVAILABILITY . 1036 ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND REMARKS . . . . . . . . . . . 1037 FUTURE PLANS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1037 INSTALLATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1037 IV. BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1085 V. REVISED GLOSSARY OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING AND PROGRAMMING TERMINOLOGY . .. . . 1089 VI. DISTRIBUTION LIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117 LIST OF TABLES TABLE NUMBER TITLE I. MANUFACTURERS OF COMPUTING SYSTEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1038 II. QUANTITY OF COMPUTING SYSTEM MANUFACTURED TO DATE . . . . . . . . 1043 III. WORD LENGTH OF COMPUTING SYSTEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045 IV. ARITHMETIC OPERATION TIME (EXCLUDING ACCESS) OF COMPUTING SYSTEM .1051 V. ARITHMETIC OPERATION TIME (INCLUDING ACCESS) OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS 1055 VI. ACCESS TIME OF HIGH SPEED STORAGE UNITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1059 VII. CAPACITY OF HIGH SPEED STORAGE UNITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1062 VIII. LOG 10 CAPACITY/ACCESS TIME OF HIGH SPEED STORAGE UNITS . . . . 1066 IX. CAPACITY OF MAGNETIC DRUM OR DISC STORAGE UNITS . . . . . . . . 1069 X. TUBE QUANTITY IN COMPUTING SYSTEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1072 XI. CRYSTAL DIODE QUANTITY IN COMPUTING SYSTEM . . . . . . . . . . . 1074 XII. TRANSISTOR QUANTITY IN COMPUTING SYSTEM . . . . . . . . . . 1076 XIII. APPROXIMATE POWER REQUIREMENT OF COMPUTING SYSTEM . . . . . . . . 1078 XIV. APPROXIMATE COST OF BASIC COMPUTING SYSTEM . . . .. . . . . . . 1081 XV. CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF INITIAL OPERATION OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS . . 1083Before any major decision can be made regarding the acquisition, installation, operation, improvement or retirement of computing equipment, first hand technical information must be obtained concerning the characteristics, availability, cost, operational problems, capability and useful life of available systems. Efficient management requires that the experience of others be exploited wherever such exploitation is beneficial. The present trend in the rapidly changing computing and data processing hardware field is toward. higher operational speeds, increased memory capacity and reliability, and solid state electrical components, including a widespread use of semi-conductors and the advent of the use of thin magnetic films in standard commercial systems. However, only existing or readily available equipment may be utilized for the immediate solution of scientific and commercial data processing problems.
BRL 1961, INTRODUCTION, starting page 0009CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
BRL 1961, PURPOSE, starting page 0010INTRODUCTION PURPOSE OF THE SURVEY REPORT
Many persons in the computing and data processing field continually y seek answers to many different questions simultaneously. Some of these questions are: Can present methods, practices and procedures used in a given organization be accomplished by automatic computing and data processing equipment? Will investment in such equipment reduce costs, provide improved service, conserve manpower or save time? When shall existing computing equipment be modified, supplemented or replaced? Of all available equipment, what type of system is best suited for the solution of a given problem or a given group of problems? Is the maximum possible return being obtained from a given investment in computing equipment? Does a given problem require specially built equipment or is a solution to be found with comercially available standard equipment? Should computing equipment be rented or purchased? Should a system be installed "on the premises" or should computer time be purchased elsewhere? The purpose of a surveillance and evaluation program is to provide answers to these and similar questions.
Government agencies, particularly Department of Defense agencies, and their contractors, require the latest technical information concerning computing and data processing equipment in order to properly establish their policy regarding acquisition, installation, operation, improvement and retirement of equipment. The purpose, therefore, of this survey report is to allow government agencies and their contractors to benefit from the results of the computing system surveillance and evaluation program conducted by the Ballistic Research Laboratories.
In 1955, a survey of electronic digital computing systems was conducted by the Ballistic Research Laboratories in order to provide technical data for the evaluation of the then existing computing machine complement of the Laboratories. The results of that survey were made available in BRL Report Number 971, M. Weik "A Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems". The report was well received by persons in government and industry. The U. S. Department of Commerce undertook further printing and distribution of the report under cover of Public Bulletin 111996, Office of Technical Services.
A new survey of electronic digital computing systems was conducted during October, November and December 1956 and January 1957 by the Computing Laboratory of the Ballistic Research laboratories. The new survey was conducted as part of the continuous surveillance and evaluation program of the Laboratory. The results were published as BEL Report Number 1010, June 1957. This report covered the results of the new survey and superseded EEL Report 971. The U. S. Department of Commerce undertook further printing and distribution of this report also under cover of Public Bulletin 1119968, Office of Technical Services.
Due to the great interest which has developed in these survey reports, the Department of Defense has co-ordinated
this activity among the Armed Services. This report contains the results of a third survey of domestic electronic digital computing systems.
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SCOPE OF THE SURVEY REPORT
PROCESSING OF THE SURVEY DATA
Applications
Programming and Numerical System
Arithmetic Unit
Storage
Input
output
Circuit Elements of Entire System
Checking Features
Power, Space, Weight and Site Preparation
Production Record
Cost, Price and Rental Rates
Personnel Requirements
Reliability,Operating Experience and Time Availability
Additional Features and Remarks
Future Plans
Installations
INTERPRETATION OF THE SURVEY DATA
USE OF THE SURVEY REPORT
