Saturday, November 28, 2009

First Generation (1941-1956)

•World War gave rise to numerous developments and started off the computer age.
•Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) were produced by a partnership between University of Pennsylvania and the US government•It consisted of 18,000 vacuum tubes and 7000 resistors.
•It was developed by John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly and was a general purpose computer.
•"Von Neumann designed the Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC) in 1945 with a memory to hold both a stored program as well as data."

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