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Harvard Mark IV
The
Harvard
Mark IV
was an
electronic
stored-program computer
built by
Harvard University
under the
supervision
of
Howard Aiken
for the
United States Air Force
.
The computer
was finished being built in
1952
. It stayed at Harvard, where the
Air Force
used it extensively.
The Mark IV
was all electronic.
The Mark
IV
used
magnetic drum
and had
200
registers
of
ferrite
magnetic core memory
. It separated the
storage
of
data
and
instructions
in what is known as the
Harvard architecture
.