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ENIAC


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                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





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