BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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EDVAC
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ENIAC
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UNIVAC1
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Detailed explanation-1: -UNIVAC I, as the first successful civilian computer, was a key part of the dawn of the computer age. Despite early delays, the UNIVAC program at the Census Bureau was a great success. The Bureau purchased a second UNIVAC I machine in the mid-1950’s, and two UNIVAC 1105 [JPG] computers for the 1960 census.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Univac 1 is the first commercial computer to attract widespread public attention.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.