COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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____ was the first computer to handle both numeric and text data
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UNIVAC I
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ENIAC
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CRAY-1
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -UNIAC I, designed in 1951, was the first computer to handle both numeric and text data.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.
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