COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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Instead of pins touching mercury to complete and electrical circuit, what did the Harvard Mark I use?
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Vacuum Tubes
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Transistors
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Mechanical Relays
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None of these
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Harvard Mark I (also known as the IBM Automatic Sequence-Controlled Calculator) was a relay computer controlled by punched tape that IBM began to develop in 1939 and completed in 1944. It was based on a suggestion that had been put forward by Howard H. Aiken in 1937.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Harvard Mark I, or IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), was a general-purpose electromechanical computer used in the war effort during the last part of World War II.
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