BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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1951, John Presper
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1961, John Bardeen
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1987, Walter Brattain
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1972, Robert Noyce
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Detailed explanation-1: -The partners delivered the first UNIVAC to the U.S. Bureau of the Census in March 1951, although their company, their patents, and their talents had been acquired by Remington Rand, Inc., in 1950.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mauchly and Eckert began building UNIVAC I in 1948 and a contract for the machine was signed by the Census Bureau on March 31, 1951, and a dedication ceremony was held in June of that year.
Detailed explanation-3: -On June 14, 1951, Remington Rand delivered its first computer, UNIVAC I, to the U.S. Census Bureau. It weighed 16, 000 pounds, used 5, 000 vacuum tubes, and could perform about 1, 000 calculations per second.
Detailed explanation-4: -Though the ENIAC patent was invalidated by the U.S. District Court in Minnesota, Eckert and Mauchly have nonetheless been credited by history with inventing the ENIAC, the world’s first large-scale general purpose electronic computer.