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Why was the Eckert and Mauchly Computer Corporation formed?
To make money selling computers. They were very bad at that because they usually set the sale price in the contract at about 1/10th what it ultimately cost to build. If Remington Rand had not bought them out, they would have gone bankrupt without delivering a single UNIVAC.
What is unvac 1?
The first commercial successful Electronic Computer, UNIVAC 1, was also the first general purpose computer-designed to handly both numeric and textual information. it was desighned by J. Presper Eckert and Jhon Mouchly.
When was the first computer used to predict the outcome of a presidential election?
Remington Rand was the first large-scale manufacturer of computers. The company was founded by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert who in 1946 had designed the giant ENIAC computer. Forty-six UNIVAC's (Universal Automatic Computers) were sold, and the system was used to accurately predict the 1952 election, although the results were not immediately reported by Walter Cronkite because they were not believed to be accurate. Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson was the front-runner in all the advance opinion polls, but by 8:30 p.m. on the East Coast, well before polls were closed in the Western states, UNIVAC projected 100-to-1 odds that Dwight D. Eisenhower would win by a landslide, which is in fact what happened.
How much did the UNIVAC 1 cost?
The UNIVAC 1, which was the first commercially produced computer in the United States, cost around $1.25 million in the early 1950s. Adjusted for inflation, this would be equivalent to roughly $12 million in today's currency. The high cost of the UNIVAC 1 made it prohibitive for many organizations, but its groundbreaking technology paved the way for the modern computer era.
What is a Timeline for computer hardware evolution?
* 1937 - John V. Atanasoff designed the first digital electronic computer * 1939 - Atanasoff and Clifford Berry demonstrate in Nov. the ABC prototype * 1941 - Konrad Zuse in Germany developed in secret the Z3 * 1943 - In Britain, the Colossus was designed in secret at Bletchley Park to decode German messages * 1944 - Howard Aiken developed the Harvard Mark I mechanical computer for the Navy * 1945 - John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert built ENIAC at U of PA for the U.S. Army * 1946 - Mauchly and Eckert start Electronic Control Co., received grant from National Bureau of Standards to build a ENIAC-type computer with magnetic tape input/output, renamed UNIVAC in 1947 but run out of money, formed in Dec. 1947 the new company Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC). * 1948 - Howard Aiken developed the Harvard Mark III electronic computer with 5000 tubes * 1948 - U of Manchester in Britain developed the SSEM Baby electronic computer with CRT memory * 1949 - Mauchly and Eckert in March successfully tested the BINAC stored-program computer for Northrop Aircraft, with mercury delay line memory and a primitive magentic tape drive; Remington Rand bought EMCC Feb. 1950 and provided funds to finish UNIVAC * 1950- Commander William C. Norris led Engineering Research Associates to develop the Atlas, based on the secret code-breaking computers used by the Navy in WWII; the Atlas was 38 feet long, 20 feet wide, and used 2700 vacuum tubes * 1951 - S. A. Lebedev developed the MESM computer in Russia * 1951 - Remington Rand successfully tested UNIVAC March 30, 1951, and announced to the public its sale to the Census Bureau June 14, 1951, the first commercial computer to feature a magnetic tape storage system, the eight UNISERVO tape drives that stood separate from the CPU and control console on the other side of a garage-size room. Each tape drive was six feet high and three feet wide, used 1/2-inch metal tape of nickel-plated bronze 1200 feet long, recorded data on eight channels at 100 inches per second with a transfer rate of 7,200 characters per second. The complete UNIVAC system weighed 29,000 pounds, included 5200 vacuum tubes, and an offline typewriter-printer UNIPRINTER with an attached metal tape drive. Later, a punched card-to-tape machine was added to read IBM 80-column and Remington Rand 90-column cards. * 1952 - Remington Rand bought the ERA in Dec. 1951 and combined the UNIVAC product line in 1952: the ERA 1101 computer became the UNIVAC 1101. The UNIVAC I was used in November to calculate the presidential election returns and successfully predict the winner, although it was not trusted by the TV networks who refused to use the prediction. * 1954 - The Sage aircraft-warning system was the largest vacuum tube computer system ever built. It began in 1954 at MIT's Lincoln Lab with funding from the Air Force. The first of 23 Direction Centers went online in Nov. 1956, and the last in 1962. Each Center had two 55,000-tube computers built by IBM, MIT, AND Bell Labs. The 275-ton computers known as "Clyde" were based on Jay Forrester's Whirlwind I and had magnetic core memory, magentic drum and magnetic tape storage. The Centers were connected by an early network, and pioneered development of the modem and graphics display.
What was the first commercial electrionic computer?
The UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial computer produced in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC. Design work was begun by their company, Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, and was completed after the company had been acquired by Remington Rand. (In the years before successor models of the UNIVAC I appeared, the machine was simply known as "the UNIVAC".) The first UNIVAC was delivered to the United States Census Bureau on March 31, 1951, and was dedicated on June 14 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 Dwight 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).
Why was the Eckert and Mauchly Computer Corporation formed?
To make money selling computers. They were very bad at that because they usually set the sale price in the contract at about 1/10th what it ultimately cost to build. If Remington Rand had not bought them out, they would have gone bankrupt without delivering a single UNIVAC.
What is unvac 1?
The first commercial successful Electronic Computer, UNIVAC 1, was also the first general purpose computer-designed to handly both numeric and textual information. it was desighned by J. Presper Eckert and Jhon Mouchly.
Which computer predicted the 1952 presidential election?
UNIVAC
How tall is Etienne Eckert?
Etienne Eckert is 5' 2 1/2".
How tall is Tina Louise Eckert?
Tina Louise Eckert is 5' 9 1/2".
When was the first computer used to predict the outcome of a presidential election?
Remington Rand was the first large-scale manufacturer of computers. The company was founded by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert who in 1946 had designed the giant ENIAC computer. Forty-six UNIVAC's (Universal Automatic Computers) were sold, and the system was used to accurately predict the 1952 election, although the results were not immediately reported by Walter Cronkite because they were not believed to be accurate. Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson was the front-runner in all the advance opinion polls, but by 8:30 p.m. on the East Coast, well before polls were closed in the Western states, UNIVAC projected 100-to-1 odds that Dwight D. Eisenhower would win by a landslide, which is in fact what happened.
What was the first contract for the UNIVAC computers?
The Census got S/N 1.
What does UNIVAC1 STANDS FOR?
UNIVAC - is a contraction of the full title - UNIVersal Automatic Computer I
How much did the UNIVAC 1 cost?
The UNIVAC 1, which was the first commercially produced computer in the United States, cost around $1.25 million in the early 1950s. Adjusted for inflation, this would be equivalent to roughly $12 million in today's currency. The high cost of the UNIVAC 1 made it prohibitive for many organizations, but its groundbreaking technology paved the way for the modern computer era.
What computers uses your complements?
old versions like PDP-1 and Univac 1100/2200 and others
What languages were used in the first generation?
machine codeassembly languageFORTRANA-1, etc. (on UNIVAC systems)COBOLetc.
