The machine was also an important tool for Frank Rosenblatt; in 1957 he invented the first artificial neural network, the Perceptron, and implemented it on the IBM 704 computer at …

Here's a group photo of IBM Customer Administrative Class 941, 3 May 1954, on the 704, which includes 704 designers Gene Amdahl and (Watson Lab alumnus) John Backus, plus fellow ex …

The IBM 704 was IBM's first commercially successful vacuum tube scientific mainframe (built at a time when computers for scientific and business computing used separate instruction sets).

The IBM 704 is the model name of a large digital mainframe computer introduced by IBM in 1954. Designed by John Backus and Gene Amdahl, it was the first mass-pr...

IBM announced the 704 on May 7, 1954, positioning it as the first mass-produced computer with built-in hardware for floating-point arithmetic and index registers, marking a pivotal shift toward …

The IBM 704 became the dominant vaccuum-tube logic computer in the late 1950'ies. A 32K, 36-bit word memory was the largest available, but because of the cost of memory 8K and 16K …

The programming languages FORTRAN and LISP were first developed for the 704, as was MUSIC, the first computer music program by Max Mathews. In 1962 physicist John Larry …

A large, scientific computer made by IBM and used by the largest commercial, government and educational institutions. The IBM 704 had 36-bit memory words, 15-bit addresses and …

The Computation Center housed one of the first high-speed digital computers built by IBM with technology developed at MIT in Project Whirlwind. The purpose of the Center was to provide a …

The IBM 704, the first mass-produced computer with floating point arithmetic hardware, was introduced by IBM in 1954. The 704 was significantly improved over the IBM 701 in terms of …