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Re: The Mark I at Harvard First Programmable Computer in the United States aka "Bessie"
From: Ed Popko
Date: 2018 Dec 7, 04:10 -0800
From: Ed Popko
Date: 2018 Dec 7, 04:10 -0800
Max,
I can't say about this particular computer but shortly after this computer's time, IBM was contracted to produce the Nautical Almanac and HO229 references.
These publications may be the first instances of automatic type-setting.
Ed
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