Architectural Museum

A catalog of legacy hardware featuring technical specifications and immersive imagery.

Sumerian Abacus
ANCIENT

Sumerian Abacus

Sumerian Engineers-2700

The first known tool for positional arithmetic, using columns drawn in sand.

mobility

High

logic

Manual Positional

material

Clay/Sand

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Chinese Suànpán
ANCIENT

Chinese Suànpán

Han Dynasty190

The classic bead-frame calculator, utilizing the Zhùsuàn technique for rapid accounting.

beads

2/5 configuration

technique

Zhùsuàn

usage

Accounting

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Antikythera Mechanism
ANCIENT

Antikythera Mechanism

Hellenistic Engineers-100

An ancient analog computer discovered in a Roman-era shipwreck, used for celestial tracking.

gears

30+

mechanism

Bronze Differential

display

Astronomical Dials

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Pascaline
ANALOG

Pascaline

Blaise Pascal1642

The first mechanical calculator capable of addition and subtraction.

mechanism

Gear-based

digits

8

usage

Tax calculation

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Stepped Reckoner
ANALOG

Stepped Reckoner

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz1673

A mechanical calculator that introduced the stepped drum mechanism for all four arithmetic operations.

operations

Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division

innovation

Stepped Drum

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Difference Engine No. 2
ANALOG

Difference Engine No. 2

Charles Babbage1847

A mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.

precision

31 digits

parts

8,000+

power

Hand-cranked

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Differential Analyzer
ANALOG

Differential Analyzer

Vannevar Bush / MIT1928

A massive electromechanical analog computer designed to solve differential equations.

weight

100 tons

components

Vacuum Tubes/Motors

logic

Analog Integration

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Zuse Z1
ANALOG

Zuse Z1

Konrad Zuse1938

The world's first programmable binary computer, constructed from thin metal sheets.

logic

Binary Mechanical

clock

1 Hz

memory

64 words

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ENIAC
MAINFRAME

ENIAC

UPenn1945

The first general-purpose electronic computer, built with vacuum tubes.

tubes

17,468

power

150 kW

weight

30 tons

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IBM 704
MAINFRAME

IBM 704

IBM1954

The first mass-produced computer with floating-point arithmetic hardware.

memory

Core Storage

arithmetic

Floating Point

primary_os

GM-NAA I/O

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IBM System/360
MAINFRAME

IBM System/360

IBM1964

A landmark family of compatible mainframe computers.

architecture

32-bit

range

Small to Super

legacy

Industry Standard

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Cray-1
SUPERCOMPUTER

Cray-1

Cray Research1976

The world's most famous supercomputer, featuring a unique C-shaped cooling tower.

speed

160 MFLOPS

architecture

Vector Processing

cooling

Freon

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