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BETTING ON THE FUTURE
UNCLASSIFIEDAn Introduction to a Historic Computer Document:Betting on the Future -The 1946 Pendergrass ReportCryptanalysis and the Digital ComputerCOLIN BURKEThe codebreakers of the American navy's OP-20-G had struggled since the early 1930sto obtain the funds needed to design and build high-speed electronic analytic machines.[11, 21 Unfortunately, their mid-1930's project, which was led by Vannevar Bush of MIT,did not produce a truly successful device. The developmental funds and the instituti...
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