This is part of information collected for the
Computer History
Exhibits.
Please send corrections and updates to
Gio Wiederhold, email gio@cs.stanford.edu
Some information was provided by John Sauter
The intent is to list all computers at Stanford up to about 1980, when personal computers became ubiquitous and uncountable. Some major, later equipment can be included.
| Manufacturer | arrived- | Campus | Add/mpy | Initial | | | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | retired | Location | speed | Memory | Prim.language | Notes | | | |
| mu sec | bytes or Words x word size | | | ||||||
| IBM CPC | Mar.1953-56 | Elec.Lab. | 760K/12M | 48Wx 10-bit digits | coded cards | mechanical | | | |
| 1955 | IBM 604 upgrade? | | | ||||||
| IBM 650 | Jan.1956-62? | Elec.Lab. | 2.2K/19K | 2K x 9-bit digit | SOAP | drum memory | | | |
| Burroughs 220 (originaly Datatron 220) | Jun.1960 | Encina | 200/3300 | 10KW x 4-bit digit | Balgol | core memory; shared with First National Bank of San Jose | | | |
| (overnight check processing) | | | |||||||
| Burroughs 5000 | Mar?.1963-68 | Pine Hall | 16K? x 48-bit words + 3-tag bits | Algol | stack architecture, campus service | | | ||
| Burroughs 5500 | update | also updated to 2 asymmetric processors | [Sauter] | |||||
| IBM 7090 | Feb.?1963-65? | Pine Hall | 32K x 36-bit words | SubAlgol (translation of BALGOL) | campus service | | | ||
| IBM 7090 update | Feb.1965?-May 1967 | Pine Hall | 4.4/25 | 32Kx 36-bit words | LISP | campus service | | | |
| used for McCarthy's chess program | ||||||||
| IBM 7044 | likely an erroneous report | |||||||
| IBM 7700 (1/2 produced) | March 1964-1972 | Prof. Yearian ? in HEPL | 16K? x 36-bit words | Shower code | data-acquistion from experiments | | | ||
| DEC PDP-1 | bef.May 1963 - 1965 | Pine Hall | 4K x 18-bit words | STSS | time-shared, for AI and Education, and spacewar | | | ||
| DEC PDP-1 | upgraded to 64K | |||||||
| DEC/NIH LINC | 1964 | Medical School, S wing basement | 4K x 12-bit words | Genetics Lab. | | | |||
| DEC PDP-6 | Aug.1965 - 1984 | AI lab | 32K x 36-bit words | LISP | AI and robotics, donated to the Boston Computer Museum | | | ||
| received CRT from PDP-1 | later attached to PDP-10 | |||||||
| IBM/360-50 | Jun.1965 | SLAC | 4/16 | 256 x bytes | development support | | | ||
| IBM/360-50 | Dec.1965-7x | Med.Sch., ACME | 4/16 | 1.128M x bytes | PL/1 subset | 1 Mbyte (later 2) was slow memory(8mu sec); timeshared | | | |
| IBM 1800 | May?1966-7x | Med.Sch. | 16 x bytes | via PL/1 | real-time sub-processor | | | ||
| IBM/360-67 | May 1967- | Pine Hall | 1.5/6 | 500K x bytes | Algol W, FORTRAN | operated as an IBM/360-65 because of an inadequate timesharing system | | | |
| SIGMA-5 | 1967? | Durand basement | Aero&Astro | ? x 32-bit words | Prof. Ron Bracewell | | | ||
| IBM/360-75 | 1967-68 | SLAC | 0.75/3 | 1Mb | FORTRAN | interim to -91 | | | |
| HP-2116 | 1967? | Durand basement | Electr. Eng. | Prof. Widrow | | | |||
| IBM/360-91 | 1968-21 Aug.1981 | SLAC | 0.2/0.4 | 2Mb | FORTRAN | | | ||
| DEC PDP-10 KA | Sep.1968-91 | AI-LAB | 192K x 36-bit words | LISP, SAIL | swapping | | | ||
| Adage | 1970? | Durand | Analog | 3D matrix transforms | | | |||
| Data General Eclipse | 1970? | Durand basement | Aero&Astro | x 16-bit words | Prof. Ron Bracewell | | | ||
| IBM 1620 | 1970? | Durand | 20K 4-bit digts | Ted Hoff/ Bernie Widrow | LMS algorithm | | | ||
| DEC PDP-10 | 197x-1992? | Med.Sch. | x 36-bit words | LISP | SUMEX: National timeshared service | | | ||
| IBM/370-168 (2) | 1973 | SLAC | 2M x bytes | FORTRAN | | | |||
| DEC PDP-10 | 1975-90? | Sweet Hall | 512K x 36-bit words | PASCAL, C, | Low-Overhead Time Sharing | |||
| DEC PDP-10 KL | Apr.1976-96 | MJ Hall | AI lab | 512K x 36-bit words | LISP, SAIL | | | ||
| Xerox Altos (12?) | 1978? | CSD, MJ Hall | 32K x 16-bit words | WYSIWG editor (Smalltalk was not provided) | | |