COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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ENIAC
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EDVAC
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CRAY-1
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UNIVAC I
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Detailed explanation-1: -UNIAC I, designed in 1951, was the first computer to handle both numeric and text data.
Detailed explanation-2: -UNIVAC I was soon used to tabulate part of the 1950 population census and the entire 1954 economic census. Throughout the 1950’s, UNIVAC also played a key role in several monthly economic surveys.
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.
Detailed explanation-4: -UNIVAC, the first commercially produced digital computer, is dedicated. On June 14, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau dedicates UNIVAC, the first commercially produced electronic digital computer in the United States.