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The Naval Postgraduate School has graduated 44 astronauts, more than any other graduate school in the country. NPS has been preparing future astronauts through space-related research and technology since 1959. See more here: https://nps.edu/web/nps-institutional-research/nps-alumni-who-reach-the-stars
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It was in Summer 1953 that the NPS Mathematics department took delivery for the new CRC-102A computer, one of the world's first educational computers. Its components included 195 vacuum tubes, 2500 diodes, 40 amps and 110 v. It ran a single-reel tape at a speed of 100 opc/sec and cost $58,000.
The CRC-102A was intended to be used in nearly all phases of the physical sciences, including for weather simulation and simulation of electronics systems, business, industrial, and military games. It was later known as the NCR 102A when its manufacturer, Computer Research Corporation was taken over by the National Cash Register Company.
Read a presentation on the history of Computing at NPS in NPS Archive: Calhoun at https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/48960.
NPS Historical Highlights are brought to you by the Dudley Knox Library.
Articles, reports, biographical essays, interview videos, the theses CAPT Hughes advised and more are available via the NPS Archive: Calhoun.
- Read the MORS Interview with CAPT Hughes (2016).
- Read articles written by CAPT Hughes.
- Read NPS theses advised by CAPT Hughes.
- CAPT Wayne P. Hughes, Jr.: A Brief Bibliography (2019).