FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which was the first general purpose electronic digital computer?
A
ENIAC
B
UNIVAC I
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The ENIAC: first general-purpose electronic computer.

Detailed explanation-2: -ENIAC (/ˈɛniæk/; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. There were other computers that had these features, but the ENIAC had all of them in one package.

Detailed explanation-3: -Designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, ENIAC was the fastest computational device of its time, able to do 5, 000 additions per second, but because it had no internal storage, it had to be programmed manually for each new set of calculations.

Detailed explanation-4: -UNIVAC, which stood for Universal Automatic Computer, was developed by a team of engineers led by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, makers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer.

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