COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Napier’s Bone
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Harvard Mark I
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Z1
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Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was the brainchild of a Harvard graduate student, Howard Aiken, who designed it in 1937, building on decades-old inspiration from British engineer and inventor Charles Babbage. Aiken shopped the idea around until IBM took interest.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -With the Mark I calculator, Howard Aiken showed that a computer could provide high-powered, speedy mathematical solutions to many problems. Aiken conceived and along with IBM engineers Clair Lake, Frank Hamilton, and Benjamin Durfee, designed the Mark I calculator. It was installed at Harvard in 1944.