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One of the world’s first general-purpose computers just turned 80 years old [TechSpot]
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The Harvard Mark I is the first programmable computer ever built in the United States. The Register notes that Aiken developed the system’s original concept and brought it to International Business Machines (IBM) in 1937. Sitting IBM CEO Thomas Watson Sr. approved and funded the innovative project in 1939.