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1. 1940   *Bell Labs MODEL-l, "Complex Calculator."
2. 1943   *Bell Labs MODEL-2, "Relay Interpolator."
3. 1944   *Harvard MARK-l, "Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator."
4. 1944   *Bell Labs MODEL-3, "Bal1istic Computer."
5. 1945   ENIAC, "Electronic Numerica1 Integrator And Computer."
6. 1945   *Bell Labs MODEL-4, "Error Detector."
7. 1946   *Bell Labs MODEL-5.
8. 1948   *Harvard MARK-2, "Aiken Relay Calculator."
9. 1948   IBM 604, "Electronic Calculating Punch."
10. 1949   BINAC, "Binary Automatic Computer."
11. 1949   IBM CPC, "Card-Programmed Electronic Calculator."
12. 1950   *Bell Labs MODEL-6.
13. 1950   NEPA, "Fairchild Nuclear Energy For Propulsion Of Aircraft Computer."

14. 1950   EDVAC, "Electronic Discrete Variable Computer."
15. 1950   SEAC, "Standards Eastern Automatic Computer."
16. 1951   *Harvard MARK-3.
17. 1951   ERA 1101, "Engineering Research Associates Computer."
18. 1951   *ONR, "Office Of Naval Research Relay Computer.
19. 1951   WHIRLWIND, "MIT Digital Computer Laboratory Computer."
20. 1951   BLC, "Burroughs Laboratory Computer."
21. 1951   UNIVAC-l, "Remington Rand Universal Automatic Computer."
22. 1952   The University of California Radiation Laboratory formed (Later became LLNL).
23. 1953   IBM 701, LLNL's first scientific system is delivered (see table below).

• The UNIVAC-1 Computer
  
  
• The Remington Rand LARC (Livermore Advanced Research Computer):
  • An Album of LARC Images
  • The Remington Rand LARC, by Charles Cole
  • The Remington Rand LARC, by Norman Hardy
    
    
• Early IBM Systems:
  • The IBM Card Programmed Calculator (CPC)
  • The IBM 650 Computer
  • The IBM 701 Computer
  • The IBM 704 and 709
  • The IBM 7030 "STRETCH"
  • The IBM 7090 and 7094
    
    
• Control Data Systems:
  • The CDC 160
  • The CDC 1604
  • The CDC 3600
  • The CDC 6600
  • The CDC 7600
  • The CDC Star (Cyber 100)
    
    
• The Cray-1
  
  
• Digital Equipment Corp. Systems:
  • The PDP-1 and Eyeball
  • The PDP-5 and 8
  • The PDP-6 and 10
  • The PDP-11 and VAX
  • The PDP-12, by Don Watson

• Storage Systems and Devices
  • Early Archival Storage at LLNL
  • The IBM 1360 Photostore
    
    
• Networks and Peripheral Devices
  • An Engineering View of the LRL Octopus Computer Network, by David L. Pehrson
  • OCTOPUS: THE LAWRENCE RADIATION LABORATORY NETWORK, by Samuel F. Mendicino
  • The First Television Monitor Display (TMDS) System
  • The Radiation Printer
  • The DD-80: A High Speed Display and Recorder
  • Early Computer Graphics Work and Equipment
  • Ostrich and Kiwi
  • Lines & Circles
    
    
• Operating Systems Development:
  • SAP & FAP
  • A RATS retrospective, by Charles Landau
  • RISOS
  • GOB
  • LTSS & NLTSS:
  • Gathering People To Write An Operating System: An Early Exercise in Software and Social Engineering, by Jim Minton, Edited by Donna Mecozzi
  • Capability Computing at LLNL, by Jed Donnelley
  • Network Livermore Time Sharing System (NLTSS),
    by S. T. Brugger, M. Gandhi, and G. Streletz
  • Components of a Network Operating System, by Jed Donnelley
    
    
• Publications:
  • The Octogram
  • The Tentacle:
    • September 1981, Volume I Number 2
    • December 1986, Volume VI Number 11
  • Character Set Specifications