BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Atanasoff-Berry Computer
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Harvard Mark 1
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Tabulating Machine
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Z1
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Detailed explanation-1: -Watson Sr. formally presents the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC) to Harvard University. One of the earliest digital computers, known at Harvard as the Mark I, this giant relay-based machine was the result of Professor Howard Aiken’s research into computation.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Harvard Mark I, or IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), was a general-purpose electromechanical computer used in the war effort during the last part of World War II.
Detailed explanation-3: -Here follows a disription of the machines and their inventors. The Harvard Mark I. The Harvard Mark I, also known as the IBM Automatic Secuence Controlled Calculator is said to be a monument in the development of the art of computing.
Detailed explanation-4: -The IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. Also called the Harvard Mark I. It was built in 1940-43 and remained operational until 1959.
Detailed explanation-5: -What was it used for? Mark I worked around the clock on military projects, calculating massive mathematical tables. Principally it helped the Navy by computing tables for the design of equipment such as torpedos and underwater detection systems.