COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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EDSAC
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EDVAC
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UNIVAC I
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Mark I
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), developed at Britain’s Cambridge University, ran its first programs in 1949. It became the first stored-program computer in regular use, heralding the transition from test to tool.
Detailed explanation-2: -We wouldn’t be able to go any earlier than the Baby, however, for it was the world’s first stored-program electronic computer. Baby or Manchester Baby was the nickname of the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) that was built in Manchester, England in 1948.
Detailed explanation-3: -EDSAC, in full Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, the first full-size stored-program computer, built at the University of Cambridge, Eng., by Maurice Wilkes and others to provide a formal computing service for users.
Detailed explanation-4: -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. American physicist John Mauchly, American engineer J.