Bob Bradlee wrote:
THe 704 was announced May 7, 1954 and withdrawn April
7, 1960 it was the first binary computer to use
core memory.
I hope you mean to say the 704 was the first *IBM* binary machine to use core
memory. Whirlwind did so a year or two year earlier (16-bit binary word).
(...always sticking up for Whirlwind for some reason)