Happy Birthday Computer
In 1951, the first commercial computer, Univac I, was unveiled.
The first UNIVAC was delivered to the United States Census Bureau on March 31, 1951 and was dedicated on June 14th that year.[1] The fifth machine (built for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission) was used by CBS to predict the result of the 1952 presidential election. With a sample of just 1% of the voting population it correctly predicted that Eisenhower would win. The UNIVAC I computers were built by Remington Rand's UNIVAC-division (successor of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, bought by Rand in 1950). Source : WikiPediaIt is amazing to think how far computers have come since that day. To most that is a long time ago, but in the scope of history, it is just a fragment of time.
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1 Comments:
Wow... now that is a really cool bit of stats there. Amazing, 1951 and a just 56 years later, here we are...
What intrigues me the most is NASA and the level of computing power they had to do the same things we do today. Back then the most powerful computers they had were comparable to a standard desktop computer found in any given home in the mid 90's. Now, to me... that wild!
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