COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Harvard Mark I
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ENIAC
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Abacus
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Pascaline
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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. American physicist John Mauchly, American engineer J.
Detailed explanation-2: -ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert built the machine at the University of Pennsylvania at the behest of the U.S. military.
Detailed explanation-3: -ENIAC was designed and built for the United States Army to calculate artillery firing tables. However, it was ENIAC’s power and general-purpose programmability that excited the public’s imagination. When it was announced in 1946, ENIAC was referred to in the media as a “giant brain.”