COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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Who developed the Mark I/IBM?
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Joseph Marie Jacquard
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Herman Hollerith
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Charles Babbage
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Howard Aiken
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Harvard Mark I) was the first operating machine that could execute long computations automatically. A project conceived by Harvard University’s Dr. Howard Aiken, the Mark I was built by IBM engineers in Endicott, N.Y.
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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mark I is also known as automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator.
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