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Photograph caption dated April 14, 1960 reads, "All the 183,000 multi-digit figures in those yards of adding-machine tape can be added in exactly one second by the new RCA 601 electronic data processing system, claimed to be the world's fastest business computer. At the system's introduction John E. Johnson, vice president of RCA's Electronic Data Processing division, said another of the system's quick tricks is that it can recall any fact or figure from its more-than-elephantine memory in one and a half millionths of a second."
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RCA Corporation.--Electronic Data Processing RCA Corporation.--Electronic Data Processing--Employees Electronic data processing personnel--California--Los Angeles RCA 601 (Computer) High performance computing--California--Los Angeles Electronic data processing--California--Los Angeles Computers--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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