Engineering and technology

IAS machine

The IAS machine was the first electronic computer built at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey. It is sometimes called the von Neumann machine, since the paper describing its design was edited by John von Neumann, a mathematics professor at both Princeton University and IAS. The computer was built from late 1945 until 1951 under his direction. The general organization is called von Neumann architecture, even though it was both conceived and implemented by others. The computer is in the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History but is not currently on display.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAS_machine

IAS machine was last modified: August 19th, 2023 by Jovan Stosic

IAS machine

The IAS machine was the first electronic computer built at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey. It is sometimes called the von Neumann machine, since the paper describing its design was edited by John von Neumann, a mathematics professor at both Princeton University and IAS. The computer was built from late 1945 until 1951 under his direction. The general organization is called von Neumann architecture, even though it was both conceived and implemented by others. The computer is in the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History but is not currently on display.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAS_machine

IAS machine was last modified: August 19th, 2023 by Jovan Stosic

IBM 701

The IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine, known as the Defense Calculator while in development, was IBM’s first commercial scientific computer and its first series production mainframe computer, which was announced to the public on May 21, 1952. It was invented and developed by Jerrier Haddad and Nathaniel Rochester based on the IAS machine at Princeton.

The IBM 701 was the first computer in the IBM 700/7000 series, which were IBM’s high-end computers until the arrival of the IBM System/360 in 1964.

The business-oriented sibling of the 701 was the IBM 702 and a lower-cost general-purpose sibling was the IBM 650, which gained fame as the first mass-produced computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_701

IBM 701 was last modified: August 19th, 2023 by Jovan Stosic

Remote desktop to Virtual Box

Start the virtual machine with:

VBoxHeadless -s  <vmname>

If the RDP server is working well then as an output from the previous command will be:

Starting virtual machine: VRDE server is listening on port 3389.

If you get an error than:

1. Install relevant extension pack
Check the version of VirtualBox you are running

VBoxManage -v

download the relevant extension pack from VirtualBox site and install it:

sudo VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-x.y.z.w.vbox-extpack

– Enable the VRDE (VirtualBox Remote Desktop Extension)

VBoxManage modifyvm “Ubuntu Server 16.04.5 v2” –vrde on

– Connect remotely to the VirtualBox vm
rdesktop -N <vbox_interface_ip_address>

You may need to install rdesktop if you don’t already have it.

If you get and error then add the address by:

VBoxManage modifyvm <vm_name> –vrdeaddress <vbox_interface_ip_address>

For <vbox_interface_ip_address>  you select the IP of VBox interface that you get with: ifconfig. For example if you are using hostonly network it is the IP of vboxnet0 (e.g. 192.168.56.1).

Additionally it may help:

VBoxManage setproperty vrdeextpack “Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack”

 

Remote desktop to Virtual Box was last modified: August 15th, 2023 by Jovan Stosic