• Jump to navigation Jump to search. Whirlwind I was a Cold War-era vacuum tube computer developed by the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory for the U.S. Navy.
  • Whirlwind I, a vacuum-tube computer, was developed in 1951 by the M.I.T. Servomechanisms Laboratory for the U.S. Navy.
  • Here’s a floor plan of the second-floor Whirlwind computer room, as it was in 1951. Each rectangle represents one rack, with a letter-number functional identifier.
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  • The Whirlwind computer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was the first computer with a video display of real time data.
  • Whirlwind, the first real-time computer—that is, a computer that can respond seemingly instantly to basic instructions, thus allowing an operator to interact with a...
  • Today nearly all computer processors use this mode, marking the Whirlwind as one of the grandfathers of the modern computer age.
  • Whirlwind was one of the very first computers; it was enormously influential, for several reasons. It was the first real-time computer...
  • Whirlwind, the first real-time computer—that is, a computer that can respond seemingly instantly to basic instructions, thus allowing an operator to interact with a...
  • Whirlwind I spawned two computers, the MTC (memory test computer) and TX O (transistor computer), both developed by ESS Installation Group 63.