Friday, July 10, 2009

EDVAC

IBM delivers its first commercial computer in 1953. The Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Calculator (EDVAC), later renamed the IBM 701, has a clock speed of 1 Mhz and is capable of 2,200 multiplications per second. Developed primarily for military use, IBM eventually sells nineteen of the 701 computers.
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