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    The document discusses the early history of computers from the 1940s through the 1950s. It describes the ENIAC as the first general-purpose, programmable digital computer built for the U.S. Army. EDVAC and EDSAC were two early computers inspired by John von Neumann's work. UNIVAC-I was an important computer built by Mauchly and Eckert that was used to help tabulate the 1950 and 1954 U.S. censuses. The conceptual foundations of computing began in the 19th century but the first electronic computers emerged in the 1940s and continued to evolve through the use of transistors and integrated circuits.

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    The document discusses the early history of computers from the 1940s through the 1950s. It describes the ENIAC as the first general-purpose, programmable digital computer built for the U.S. Army. EDVAC and EDSAC were two early computers inspired by John von Neumann's work. UNIVAC-I was an important computer built by Mauchly and Eckert that was used to help tabulate the 1950 and 1954 U.S. censuses. The conceptual foundations of computing began in the 19th century but the first electronic computers emerged in the 1940s and continued to evolve through the use of transistors and integrated circuits.

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    THE ELECTRONIC ERA

    The electronic age is wha we currently live in. It can be defined as the time between 1940 and right now.
    The ENIAC was the first high-speed, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full
    range of computing problems. This computer was designed to be used by the U.S. Army for artillery
    firing tables.

    ENIAC (1946-1955)

    ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the world’s first general-purpose computer.
    ENIAC was designed and built for the United States Army to calculate artillery firing tables. However, it
    was ENIAC’s power and general-purpose programmability that excited the public’s imagination.

    EDVAC (1947-1953

    EDVAC was designed in 1944 and built in the 1940s, before being installed in the U.S. Army’s Ballistics
    Research Laboratory in Maryland in August of 1940. As a binary serial computer, EDVAC processed
    mathematical operations with a serial memory capacity of roughly 5.5 kB.

    EDSAC (1947-1949)

    The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) was an early British computer. Inspired by
    John von Neumann’s seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, the machine was constructed by
    Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England.

    UNIVAC-I (1950-1951)

    Mauchly and Eckert began building UNIVAC I in 1948 and a contract for the machine was signed by the
    Census Bureau on March 31, 1951, and a dedication ceremony was held in June of that year. UNIVAC I
    was soon used to tabulate part of the 1950 population census and the entire 1954 economic census.

    EVOLUTION OF COMPUTER

    While the conceptual idea behind a computer was developed in the 19 th century, the first electronic
    computer was developed in the 1940s. Early computers used mechanical relays and vacuum tubes,
    which were replaced by transistors and later by integrated circuits, which led to the microprocessors we
    use today.

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