20 Jul
2004
20 Jul
'04
2:27 p.m.
Tom Jennings wrote:
I'm not sure if more than one terminal at a time
was supported, but
likely the first long-distance remote terminal on an electrical
calculator was the one on a Harvard Mark relay calculator. I think it
was dry copper to Aiken's office or something, some miles away, to a
teletype terminal. 1930's? 1940's?
From the archives of the IEEE Computer magazine :
It was particularly appropriate that time-sharing began at Dartmouth
College. Twenty-four years earlier at Dartmouth, on September 11,
1940, George Stibitz had first demonstrated remote computing. Using a
Teletype connected via a telephone line to New York City, Stibitz was
able to control the operation of his Complex Number Calculator at
Bell Telephone Laboratories. Among those who used the system was
logician Norbert Wiener.
http://www.computer.org/history/looking/r90006.htm
-- HansP