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The IBM Harvard Mark I, or the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), an electromechanical computer built in 1944 for use by the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships. The machine was built out of  switches, relays, rotating shafts, and clutches and weighed approximately 10,000 pounds.


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