Early Computers - Research Article from Macmillan Science Library: Computer Sciences

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 13 pages of information about Early Computers.

Early Computers - Research Article from Macmillan Science Library: Computer Sciences

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 13 pages of information about Early Computers.
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On May 1949, before EDVAC was completed, a slim ribbon of paper containing the instructions to compute the squares of integers was fed into it. Thirty seconds later it began to print the numbers 1, 4, 9, 16, 25… The first program in a stored-program computer had been born.

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