{"title":"SEAC: review of three years of operation","authors":"P. D. Shupe, R. Kirsch","doi":"10.1145/1434878.1434898","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Since September of 1950, the National Bureau of Standards has had SEAC, a digital-automatic computer, in almost continuous daily usage. It was originally conceived as an interim-computing facility for the use of the government until a more complete computing system could replace it. Consequently, in constructing the machine, it was intended to put into productive operation as soon as possible a minimal machine that could produce computed results. However, the machine proved quite reliable, and the experiments involved in its design were sufficiently successful that SEAC was expanded and kept in operation as a permanent tool at the National Bureau of Standards. It is the purpose of this paper to present some of the operating experience that has been obtained from the use of this computer and to indicate the ways in which component reliability and maintenance procedures have affected the amount of useful computation that has been obtained from SEAC.","PeriodicalId":384732,"journal":{"name":"AIEE-IRE '53 (Eastern)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1953-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AIEE-IRE '53 (Eastern)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1434878.1434898","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Since September of 1950, the National Bureau of Standards has had SEAC, a digital-automatic computer, in almost continuous daily usage. It was originally conceived as an interim-computing facility for the use of the government until a more complete computing system could replace it. Consequently, in constructing the machine, it was intended to put into productive operation as soon as possible a minimal machine that could produce computed results. However, the machine proved quite reliable, and the experiments involved in its design were sufficiently successful that SEAC was expanded and kept in operation as a permanent tool at the National Bureau of Standards. It is the purpose of this paper to present some of the operating experience that has been obtained from the use of this computer and to indicate the ways in which component reliability and maintenance procedures have affected the amount of useful computation that has been obtained from SEAC.
自1950年9月以来,美国国家标准局(National Bureau of Standards)几乎每天都在使用数字自动计算机SEAC。它最初被设想为政府使用的临时计算设施,直到一个更完整的计算系统可以取代它。因此,在建造这台机器时,它的目的是使一台能产生计算结果的最小机器尽快投入生产。然而,这台机器被证明是相当可靠的,并且在其设计中涉及的实验非常成功,因此SEAC被扩大并作为国家标准局的永久工具保持运行。本文的目的是介绍从使用这台计算机中获得的一些操作经验,并指出部件可靠性和维护程序如何影响从SEAC获得的有用计算量。