BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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IBM 650
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UNIVAC I
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Macintosh 128k
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IBM 700
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Detailed explanation-1: -UNIVAC, the first commercially produced digital computer, is dedicated. On June 14, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau dedicates UNIVAC, the first commercially produced electronic digital computer in the United States. UNIVAC, which stood for Universal Automatic Computer, was developed by a team of engineers led by J.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Univac 1 is the first commercial computer to attract widespread public attention.
Detailed explanation-3: -The UNIVAC I was designed as a commercial data-processing computer, intended to replace the punched-card accounting machines of the day. It could read 7, 200 decimal digits per second (it did not use binary numbers), making it by far the fastest business machine yet built.
Detailed explanation-4: -The UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial computer produced in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC.
Detailed explanation-5: -UNIVAC was a first generation computer.