FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS

HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What year was the first version a RAM introduced?
A
1973
B
1943
C
1953
D
1963
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Dynamic Random Access Memory or (RAM) was first invented in 1968 by Robert Dennard. He was born in Texas and is an engineer who created one of the first models of (RAM) which was first called Dynamic Random Access Memory. His invention led to computers being able to reach a new era of technological advancement.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Pilot ACE computer, with 800 vacuum tubes, and mercury delay lines for its main memory, became operational on 10 May 1950 at the National Physical Laboratory near London. It was a preliminary version of the full ACE, which had been designed by Alan Turing.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first practical form of random-access memory was the Williams tube starting in 1947. It stored data as electrically charged spots on the face of a cathode-ray tube. Since the electron beam of the CRT could read and write the spots on the tube in any order, memory was random access.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC) is among the first stored program computers completed in the United States. It was built in Washington DC as a test-bed for evaluating components and systems as well as for setting computer standards.

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