COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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ENIAC
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UNIVAC I
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -ENIAC, in full Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, built during World War II by the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -Designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, ENIAC was the fastest computational device of its time, able to do 5, 000 additions per second, but because it had no internal storage, it had to be programmed manually for each new set of calculations.
Detailed explanation-3: -In February 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were about to unveil, for the first time, an electronic computer to the world. Their ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could churn 5, 000 addition problems in one second, far faster than any device yet invented.
Detailed explanation-4: -The ENIAC: first general-purpose electronic computer. 1981.