The machine was also an important tool for Frank Rosenblatt; in 1957 he invented the first artificial neural network, the Perceptron, and implemented it on the IBM 704 computer at Cornell Aeronautical …

Here's a group photo of IBM Customer Administrative Class 941, 3 May 1954, on the 704, which includes 704 designers Gene Amdahl and (Watson Lab alumnus) John Backus, plus fellow ex …

The IBM 704 was IBM's first commercially successful vacuum tube scientific mainframe (built at a time when computers for scientific and business computing used separate instruction sets).

IBM announced the 704 on May 7, 1954, positioning it as the first mass-produced computer with built-in hardware for floating-point arithmetic and index registers, marking a pivotal shift toward dedicated …

The IBM 704 is the model name of a large digital mainframe computer introduced by IBM in 1954. Designed by John Backus and Gene Amdahl, it was the first mass-pr...

In 1954 IBM announced the 704 Data Processing System. Though the company did not designate it as a computer, it was the first commercially available computer to incorporate indexing and floating point …

The programming languages FORTRAN and LISP were first developed for the 704, as was MUSIC, the first computer music program by Max Mathews. In 1962 physicist John Larry Kelly, Jr created one of …

The IBM 704 became the dominant vaccuum-tube logic computer in the late 1950'ies. A 32K, 36-bit word memory was the largest available, but because of the cost of memory 8K and 16K systems …

A large, scientific computer made by IBM and used by the largest commercial, government and educational institutions. The IBM 704 had 36-bit memory words, 15-bit addresses and instructions …

The IBM 704, the first mass-produced computer with floating point arithmetic hardware, was introduced by IBM in 1954. The 704 was significantly improved over the IBM 701 in terms of architecture as well …