Acceptance test for Raytheon hurricane computer

Abstract

The hurricane digital computer is a large-scale digital computer developed for the United States Navy by the Raytheon Manufacturing Company and installed at the Naval Air Missile Test Center at Point Mugu in the spring of 1953. It has many novel features including highly developed input and output equipment, magnetic-tape storage with an optical locating device, and a checking system which was designed not merely to detect errors but to prevent loss of any valid information available to the computer.