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ENIAC - Wikipedia  ENIAC was amongst the earliest electronic general-purpose computers made. It was ... It weighed more than 30 short tons (27 t), was roughly 2.4m  0.9m  30m (8  3  100 feet) ... In one of these cycles, ENIAC could write a number to a register, read a ... Betty Holberton (nee Snyder) continued on to invent the first sorting...
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ENIAC Accumulator #2 | National Museum of American History  The name ENIAC is an acronym of Electronic Numerical Integrator and ... ENIAC filled a room measuring 30 feet by 50 feet and weighed 30 tons. ... By the time ENIAC was finished, the war was over, and the original goal was no ... These included pioneers such as George Stibitz at Bell Laboratories, ... 8/19/2016 1:55:16 PM.
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ENIAC: 10 things you should know about the original super ...  Feb 15, 2011 ... 15, 1946 New York Times, a page one headline reads: Electronic Computer ... The ENIAC was the first computer built to take full advantage of ... feet (167 square meters) of floor space, weighed 30 tons, consumed 160...
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Computer History - Computer Science Lab  An illustrated history of computers with over 50 rare photos. ... to ENIAC, which stood for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator. ... show off their progress were some of these female computers (one of whom remarked, ... ENIAC filled a 20 by 40 foot room, weighed 30 tons, and used more than 18,000 vacuum tubes.
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The History of Computing - George Mason University  It wasn't until over a 100 years later that another all purpose computer was conceived. Sketch of the ... Weighed 750 lbs. and had a memory storage of 3,000 bits (0.4K). Recorded ... The ENIAC is a 30 ton machine that measured 50 x 30 feet. ... 1976 - CRAY 1 - The world's first electronic digital computer, developed in 1946.
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About TI  History  TI.com - Texas Instruments  1930s. Geophysical Service Inc., a small oil and gas company, opens in 1930. ... We begin applying signal processing technologies to submarine detection, then ... Instruments Incorporated, entering the semiconductor industry by inventing the ... The Apollo Lunar Exploration Module containing TI components lands on the...
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Programming the ENIAC - Columbia University  The ENIAC was not a stored-program computer; it is "better described as a collection of electronic adding machines and other arithmetic units, which were...
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Sputnik - NASA History Homepage  History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.
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UNIVAC I - Wikipedia  The UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial computer produced .... (Ingerman's simulator for the UNIVAC, referenced below, also makes this modification available.) ... right-hand bay contained the tape drive and all of the necessary electronics, while the left-hand bay was the air-conditioning unit.
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Computers | Timeline of Computer History | Computer History Museum  Called the Model K Adder because he built it on his Kitchen table, this .... A total of ten Colossi were delivered, each using as many as 2,500 vacuum tubes. ..... The PDP-8 sold for $18,000, one-fifth the price of a small IBM System/360 ... A large parallel processing computer, the ILLIAC IV does not operate until 1972.
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jeopardy/1127_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Wrong: Value: $400. Number: 24. TECHNOLOGY | Far less powerful than today's PC, this 1950s machine was the U.S.A.'s first commercial computer | UNIVAC.
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A 35th-anniversary salute to Radio Shack's TRS-80 - CNN.com  Aug 6, 2012 ... Breaking News ... Radio Shack's TRS-80 was one of 1977s trinity of early consumer PCs ... Those of you who mentioned the legendary Apple II -- that's fine. ... the time: Like Apple's Apple I, it only became the I after a II was introduced. .... 1983s TRS-80 Model 100, the first successful notebook computer,...
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Chapter 1 Sometimes You Can Take It with You - Wiley  It may have weighed over 40 pounds, but ... The first successful portable computer was the Osborne 1, created by Adam ... time: The thing would have to fit under an airline seat  and this was years ... ing handle so you could lug the 24-pound beast around like an over-packed ..... Because of these limitations, the laptop.
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The History of Computers in a Nutshell - Six Revisions  Apr 21, 2010 ... The first commercially available computers came in the 1950s. ... The UNIVAC was the first commercial computer developed in the U.S., with its ... In the beginning, they were less reliable than the vacuum tubes they replaced, but ... markets, though they didn't appear in the PC market until the early 2000s.
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From Tubes To Transistors - Computer History 101: The ...  Aug 24, 2011 ... The first-generation computers were known for using vacuum tubes in their construction. ... Computer History 101: The Development Of The PC.
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Seymour Cray - the father of the super computer, built first fully ...  Seymour Cray - the father of the super computer, built first fully transistorised ... 30 abandoned babies over the years A woman has been hailed a hero after det.
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Application Software for Insurance in the 1960s and Early 1970s  1401 tape computer, seems to have been the first--and was certainly the best ... example, noted that "If a company were to adopt CFO in its entirety, about 35 man- .... in 1965--ALIS (Advanced Life Insurance System) and PALIS (Property and ... dissatisfied former IBM salesman Ross Perot in 1962, EDS sold what came to be.
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UNIVAC - Wikipedia  UNIVAC is the name of a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the ... UNIVAC was first intended for the Bureau of the Census, which paid for ... most famous UNIVAC product was the UNIVAC I mainframe computer of 1951, ... its own calculating machine lab in Norwalk, Connecticut, and later bought...
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The Story of the Intel 4004  Explore the history of Intel's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, from its invention to ... In 1969, Nippon Calculating Machine Corporation approached Intel to ... of the smallest microprocessor designs that ever went into commercial production. Initial transistor count. In 1971, the Intel 4004 processor held 2,300 transistors.
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The History of Computing - George Mason University  Between 1935 and 1945 the definition referred to a machine, rather than a person. ... 17th C. - Slide rule - a manual device used for calculation that consists in its simple form ... a 17th century mathematician, for whom the Pascal computer programming ... 1946 - ENIAC - World's first electronic, large scale, general-purpose...
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IBM Personal Computer - Wikipedia  In 1984 IBM introduced the PC/AT, unlike its predecessor the most sophisticated personal computer from any major company. ... In November 1982, Compaq Computer Corporation announced the Compaq Portable, the first portable IBM PC compatible. The first models were shipped in January 1983.