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technology
Title: technology
Category: Literature / English
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technology
Technology research on history of computers 03/07/2001
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1
HAVARD MARK 1 1
UNIVAC 2
Z3 2
HAVARD MARK 1
It was considered as the first digital computer.
The mark 1 used mechanical telephone relay switches to store information and accepted data it processed.
This was not a computer but instead was a highly sophisticated calculator. It was large in size measuring over 51 feet in length .
It had many parts, most of them moving mechanical parts, which made
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Harvard Mark I. The Z3 could perform three or four additions per second and multiply two numbers together in 4 to 5 seconds. The Z3's floating-point representation of numbers made it more flexible than the Mark I. The Z3 was the first machine in the world that could be said to be a fully working programmable computer with automatic control of its operations.
Konrad zuse inventor of Z3
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa050298.htm
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