Columbia University Computing History   

The IBM 7094

IBM 7094 at Columbia
IBM 7094 at Columbia in 1965
Left: The IBM 7094 computer in the Columbia University Computer Center machine room some time between 1964 and 1968, operator John Szallasi at the console. The IBM 709x series are the 36-bit machines on which LISP was developed; its 18-bit halfwords were perfect for CARs and CDRs. This is the machine that inspired DEC's first 36-bit machine, the PDP-6, which was followed by the PDP-10 and DEC-20.

Photo: Columbia University Archive.

Here are some other, non-Columbia IBM 7094 images; click the first one to enlarge, the others are already shown full-size.

Big 7094 system
Big 7094 system; Photo: IBM
7094 at MIT MIT 7094 console
Views of the IBM 7094 at MIT about 1962.
The MIT 7094 machine is running MIT's Compatible Time Sharing System (CTSS), arguably the first timesharing system, which was later countered by MIT's PDP-10 based Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS).

IBM 7094 relics from the collection of Paul Pierce:

IBM 7094
IBM 7094 console
IBM 7094
IBM 7094 console
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Columbia University Computing History Frank da Cruz / fdc@columbia.edu This page created: January 2001 Last update: 1 April 2021