COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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What made the Harvard Mark I run?
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Drive Shaft connected to an electric motor.
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It ran off all electricity.
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A hand crank at the end of the machine.
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Mice running on wheels inside the machine.
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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: -Mark I was designed in 1937 by Harvard graduate student Howard H. Aiken to solve advanced mathematical physics problems encountered in his research. Aiken’s ambitious proposal envisioned the use of modified, commercially-available technologies coordinated by a central control system.
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