MANIAC II

The MANIAC II (Mathematical Analyzer Numerical Integrator and Automatic Computer Model II) was a first-generation electronic computer, built in 1957 for use at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.By the time of its decommissioning, the computer was all solid-state, using a combination of RTL, DTL and TTL.These terminals used an extended character set which covered about all the mathematical symbols, and allowed for half-line spacing for math formulas.Storage was three IBM 7000 series 1301 disk drives, each having two modules of 21.6 million characters apiece.One of the data products of MANIAC II was the table of numbers appearing in the book The 3-j and 6-j Symbols by Manuel Rotenberg, et al., published in 1959.
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