First Generation of Computers / Essays / ID: 809029

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ID number:809029

Author: Anonymous author (1)

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Published: 01.12.1996.

Language: English

Level: Secondary school

Literature: n/a

References: Not used

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The first generation of computers, 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.
In 1950, the first real-time, interactive computer was completed by a
design team at MIT. The 'Whirlwind Computer,' as it was called, was a
revamped U.S. Navy project for developing an aircraft simulator. …

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