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| The IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC) was presented to Harvard University on August 7, 1944. The ASCC was over 51 feet long and 8 feet high. It contained 3,300 relay components, 2,200 counter wheels and weighed over 5 tons. |
| 1854 George Boole, an English mathematician, develops a revolutionary type of Algebra based on the numbers one and zero. This system is now referred to as Boolean Algebra. This was later found to be a very useful way of representing information in computers. |