April 23, 1964: Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) Decommissioned

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April 23, 1964: SEAC is retired

1964– The Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) is retired after fifteen years. SEAC was the first to use all-diode logic. SEAC was bason on EDVAC. It had 747 vacuum tubes, and the clock rate was under 1 mHz.

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