COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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The first general purpose electric digital commercial computer that was used by a television station in predicting the result of the 1952 US Presidential Elections. what do we call this computer?
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ENIAC
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EDVAC
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UNIVAC
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ABC
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -To promote sales, the company joined with CBS to have UNIVAC I predict the result of the 1952 Presidential election.
Detailed explanation-2: -UNIVAC was a first generation computer.
Detailed explanation-3: -The UNIVAC I was designed as a commercial data-processing computer, intended to replace the punched-card accounting machines of the day. It could read 7, 200 decimal digits per second (it did not use binary numbers), making it by far the fastest business machine yet built.
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