Sunday, 13 April 2014

THE FIRST GENERATION, 1951-1958: THE VACUUM TUBE

1951- Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC 1) was delivered to US Bureau of the Census
Marked the first time a computer had been built for business applications rather than for military, scientific or engineering use.
Using thousands of vacuum tubes- electronic tubes about the size of light bulbs –were used as the internal computer components.
Negative: problems for temperature and climate control, frequent burnout, machine language for programming.


1957- Used magnetic tape for stories data.


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