We can get a sense of the future by studying the past.Do you want to know what's around the corner?

It started with the dinasors.

The first UNIVAC computer (Universal Automatic Computer
is developed in 1951. It can store 12,000 digits in random
access mercury-delay lines) was delivered to the Census
Bureau in June 1951.

Internally, the UNIVAC operated at a clock frequency of
2.25 MHz, which was no
mean feat for vacuum tube circuits. The UNIVAC also
employed mercury delay-line memories.



Unlike the ENIAC,(electronic numerical integrator and
computer)
--the world's first electronic digital computer the UNIVAC
processed
each digit serially. But its much higher design speed
permitted it to add two ten-digit numbers at a rate of
almost 100,000 additions per second.

The machine designed by Drs. Eckert and Mauchly was a
monstrosity.
When it was finished, the ENIAC filled an entire room,
weighed thirty tons,
and consumed two hundred kilowatts of power. Vacuum
tubes, over 19,000 of
them, were
the principal elements in the computer's circuitry. It
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