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The Univac was made in 1951, it was very big and clumsy and used about 943 cubic meters of space. Remington Rand sold 46 machines at more than $1 million each. Produced about 1.905 operations per second. Cost about $750 ,000. The UNIVAC was the first commercial computer to attract the public’s attention.
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Grace Hopper completed the First Compiler in 1952, it was a program that allowed a person to use actual words rather than numbers.
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In 1953, Jay Forrester installed a magnetic core memory that made the computers more reliable, faster, and easier to make, the component remained popular until the 1970’s.
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The IBM 650 was the first mass-produced computer to be made, selling 450 computers in the year of 1954. It allowed faster access to material that was stored rather than memory machines.
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In 1955, Felker and HArris programed the first transistorized computer. THe way Harris and Felker designed the computer it was able to work on less than 100 watts.
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MIT researchers built the first computer, the MIT TX0, that was programable and that also had transistors.
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Led by Bill Norris left Sperry rand to form a new company, The new company was called Control Data Corp. Soon they released the 1604 computer.
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In 1958, Jack Kilby proved that capacitors and resistors can exist together by creating the first integrated circuit.
