Harry Douglas Huskey (19 January 1916 to 9 April 2017) was an American computer design pioneer who worked on the ENIAC and EDVAC in 1945 and then collaborated with Alan Turing on the Pilot ACE at Britain's National Physical Laboratory. He designed and managed the construction of the Standards Western Automatic Computer, known as SWAC, at the United States National Bureau of Standards between 1949 and 1953, and later engineered the Bendix G-15, a 950 pound machine operable by a single person. Huskey went on to establish computer science programs at the University of California, Berkeley and at Santa Cruz.
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What happened to Harry Huskey's own Bendix G-15 computer?
Bendix gave Huskey a G-15 that he used as a personal computer for many years. It went to the Smithsonian in 1990.
The IEEE Computer Society biography of Huskey says the Bendix Corporation gave him a G-15, a drum computer that he had designed while on leave at Wayne State University in 1952 and 1953. He used that machine for many years as his personal computer. In 1990 it was presented to the Smithsonian Institution for the Information Age exhibit in the National Museum of American History.
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Harry Douglas Huskey (January 19, 1916 - April 9, 2017) was an American computer design pioneer.
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Harry Huskey, Maurice Halstead, Niklaus Wirth
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Harry Huskey
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It was designed by Harry Huskey.
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