Classic Computing

WAVE checking IBM computer.
Courtesy National Archives

In the above photograph, the WAVE operator of the International Business Machine is seen inputting data into the computer. WWII was seminal in the development of the modern computer, the military was at the cutting edge of computer processing for most of the 20th century.

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