The Datatron is a family of vacuum-tube computers developed by ElectroData Corporation, using internal decimal operations and first shipped in 1954. Burroughs Corporation acquired ElectroData in 1956 and went on to market Burroughs-branded versions of the machine, which remained in operation through the 1960s.
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SignificanceOne of the earliest implementations of an ALGOL-style language on a commercial system. 1 Sources
1. Datatron, Wikipedia
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The Datatron is a family of vacuum tube computers, developed by ElectroData Corporation, that used internal decimal operations and first shipped in 1954.
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This was one of the earliest implementations of an ALGOL-style language on a commercial system, enabling programmers to write mathematical formulas that the machine would then translate into its decimal-based machine code.
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