ORACLE (computer)

Its name was selected with reference to a lyrical acronym from Greek mythology—ORACLE, defined as 'a shrine in which a deity reveals hidden knowledge.'

Assembled before the development of transistors and microchips, the ORACLE was a large scientific digital computer that used vacuum tubes.

The computer also contained a magnetic-tape auxiliary memory and an on-line cathode-tube plotter, a recorder, and a typewriter.

Operational in 1954, for a time the ORACLE had the fastest speed and largest data storage capacity of any computer in the world.

[Alston] Householder and the Mathematics Panel used the ORACLE to analyze radiation and shielding problems.

The ORACLE being used to design the nuclear reactor core of the APPR-1 reactor [ 1 ]