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Friday, November 20, 2009

Mark-I

Mark-I
  • Designed by Howard Aiken (1900-1973), a Harvard Engineer in 1937.
  • Mark-I was the first automatic electromechanical computer.
  • Mark-I was 51 ft. long, 8 ft. tall and 3 ft. wide having 18000 vaccum tubes.
  • Mark-I used instructions stored in paper tapes and panched cards. Mark-I consits of 7 lakhs 50 thousands parts.

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