The First Generation Of Computers

Title	The First Generation Of Computers
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The First Generation of Computers

The First Generation of Computers

     The first generation of computers, beginning around the end of  World War 2,
and continuing until around the year 1957, included computers that used vacuum
tubes, drum memories, and programming in machine code. Computers at that time
where mammoth machines that did not have the power our present day desktop
microcomputers.

     In 1950, the first real-time, interactive computer was completed by a
design team at MIT.  The "Whirlwind Computer," as it was called, was a revamped
U.S. Navy project for developing an aircraft simulator.  The Whirlwind used a
cathode ray tube and a light gun to provide interactively. The Whirlwind was
linked to a series of radars and could identify unfriendly aircraft and direct
interceptor fighters to their projected locations.  It was to be the prototype
for a network of computers and radar sites (SAGE) acting as an important element
of U.S. air defense for a quarter-century after 1958.

     In 1951, the first commercially-available computer was delivered to the
Bureau of the Census by the Eckert Mau...

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