COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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John Von Neumann
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Howard Aiken
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John Mauchly
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Howard Hathaway Aiken (1900-1973) was a major figure of the early digital era. He is best known for his first machine, the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator or Harvard Mark I, conceived in 1937 and put into operation in 1944.
Detailed explanation-2: -From 1939 to 1944 Aiken, in collaboration with IBM, developed his first fully functional computer, known as the Harvard Mark I. The machine, like Babbage’s, was huge: more than 50 feet (15 metres) long, weighing five tons, and consisting of about 750, 000 separate parts, it was mostly mechanical.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Mark 1’s primary function was to calculate and print sets of numerical tables, lists of solutions to various mathematical operations. The Mark 1 was used almost exclusively by the US Navy.