BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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ENIAC
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EDVAC
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Z1
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UNIVAC 1
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nevertheless, engineers in England built the first stored-program computer, the Manchester Mark I, shortly before the Americans built EDVAC, both operational in 1949.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sixty-five years ago today, the Manchester Small Scale Experimental Machine-nicknamed “Baby”-became the earliest computer in the world to run a program electronically stored in its memory. This was a flagship moment: the first implementation of the stored program concept that underpins modern computing.
Detailed explanation-3: -2, 2006), Hans Neukom observed that the ENIAC first operated in stored-program mode in September 1948; a date that, if accurate, gives precedence to the Manchester Baby as the first stored-program computer.