COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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EDSAC
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UNIVAC I
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ENIAC
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Difference Engine
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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: -In February 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were about to unveil, for the first time, an electronic computer to the world. Their ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could churn 5, 000 addition problems in one second, far faster than any device yet invented.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.