1951 -Modern Computers MIT Whirlwind I with Real Time Video
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Jay Forrester on the Whirlwind Computer
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The Story of Whirlwind Computer Operator Joe Thompson
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The Whirlwind Computer, segment 1
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See It Now: Jay W. Forrester and the WHIRLWIND Computer - (1951)
Whirlwind I was a Cold War-era vacuum tube computer developed by the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory for the U.S. Navy. It was amongst the first digital electronic computers that operated in real-time for output, and the first that was not simply an electronic replacement of older mechanical systems.