The Whirlwind was not a complex computer, though: it was a 16-bit computer with only 2048 words of memory. It could handle just 50,000 add functions a second.

Folder 21 MITRE Corporation, 1970, 1972. Pertains to MITRE documentation of the Whirlwind Project and other related matters on the Whirlwind computer: summary reports, meeting of those involved with ...

Whirlwind, as the Navy's most advanced computer, suddenly looked good again. Forrester implemented the development of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system from Whirlwind-based ...

The 1953 Cape Cod system -- 26. Further R & D planning and the 1954 Cape Cod system -- 27. Problems with manpower, computer programs, and intercept testing -- 28. Design progress and administrative ...

During his time at MIT after the Navy, Olsen designed the Whirlwind computer, the first real-time computer. Olsen was on the staff of the MIT Digital Computer Laboratory for seven years.

Project Whirlwind comes home (PhysOrg.com) -- The Project Whirlwind Computer collection -- a compilation of pioneering digital computing research conducted at MIT in the 1940s and 1950s -- has ...

Project Whirlwind comes home (PhysOrg.com) -- The Project Whirlwind Computer collection -- a compilation of pioneering digital computing research conducted at MIT in the 1940s and 1950s -- has ...

Whirlwind, as the Navy's most advanced computer, suddenly looked good again. Forrester implemented the development of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system from Whirlwind-based ...