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Description: Duty officer signup sheet for the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships Computation Project at Harvard University, which built and operated the w:Harvard Mark I, one of the earliest digital computers. The Mark I was in operation from 1944 to 1959. During that period, the days of the week and dates on the form, e.g. Monday, 23 April, match up for the following years: 1945, 1951 and 1957. Grace Hopper, noted computer pioneer, worked on the project from 1944 to 1949.
Title: Harvard Mark I sign-up.agr
Credit: Own work
Author: ArnoldReinhold, form created and signed by U.S. Navy personnel, including Grace Hopper
Permission: Original document is a work of the U.S. Navy and therefore in the public domain.
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
License Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
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