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History of computers.

By reamadorg

  • ENIAC

    ENIAC
    The first computer called ENIAC is introduced to the public. It was built at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) and operated with more than 17,000 vacuum tubes. It could make 5,000 additions and 300 multiplications per second.

  • COBOL

    The second generation of computers starts, which used transistors to process information instead of vacuum tubes. New programming languages such as COBOL and FORTRAN were developed.

  • IBM

    IBM
    The IBM PC is on sale as a home computer and revolutionizes computing. It increases the development of software and operating systems with which computers run.