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ENIAC
Factbot
The first electronic computer ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and took up 1800 square feet.
UNIVAC
UNIVAC or Universal Automatic Computer, was another successful invention of John Mauchly
and Presper Eckert in 1951, which could handle both numeric and textual information. The
UNIVAC had 5200 vacuum tubes.
UNIVAC
Features of First Generation Computer
Huge in size.
Very expensive.
Made up of vacuum tubes.
Vacuum tube
Premium Edition-III
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