Re: one of the world's earliest computers

JAB <here@is.invalid> writes:

Eighty years ago, IBM presented Harvard University with one of the
world's earliest computers: the Automated Sequence Controlled
Calculator (ASCC), later known as the Harvard Mark I.
 
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/harvard_mark_1

In 1953, one of my teachers (Bob McCreech) took a class group to
Boston to visit interesting stuff.  One stop was at Harvard where we
had a look at "the computer" [note definite article].  AFAIR 70 years
on, it occupied the wall space around a largish room into which we
were allowed to gaze through glass.  In an adjacent room we were
allowed into, there was a paper tape punch.  The duty tour guide
caused the computer to punch out our names in strips of paper tape
that each of us could carry away as a souvenir.

Would this have been the Mark I?  Some other machine?

A mere 15 years later, I actually wrote a toy program in some version
of Fortran for an IBM 1620 that, together with it's console, line
printer and card-handling gear was no larger than two or three home
freezers. :-)

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Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada