The First Generation Of Computers
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, beginning around the end of World War 2,
and continuing until around the year 1957, included computers that used vacuum
tubes, drum memories, and programming in machine code. Computers at that time
where mammoth machines that did not have the power our present day desktop
microcomputers.
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.... by the Eckert Mauchly Computer Corporation. The UNIVAC
(Universal Automatic Computer) was the first computer which was not a one-of-a-
kind laboratory instrument. The UNIVAC became a household word in 1952 when it
was used on a televised newscast to project the winner of the Eisenhower-
Stevenson presidential race with stunning accuracy. That same year Maurice V.
Wilkes (developer of EDSAC) laid the foundation for the concepts of
microprogramming, which was to become the guide for compute ....
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