Computer History: Kristianne Aleza Marie L. Javier Instructor
Computer History: Kristianne Aleza Marie L. Javier Instructor
Computer History: Kristianne Aleza Marie L. Javier Instructor
HISTORY
Chapter 4
The ABC, shown above,is often considered the first electronic digital
computer. According to one historian, “The ABC first demonstrated in
1939 may not have been much of a computer, just as the Wrights’
model was not much of an airplane, but it opened the way.”
FIRST WORKING COMPUTER
• In 1939, IBM sponsored an engineer
named Howard Aiken, who embarked on
an audacious plan to integrate 73 IBM
Automatic Accounting Machines into a
single unified computing unit. What
emerged was a mechanical computer
officially named the IBM Automatic
Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC),
but now usually referred to as the
Harvard Mark I
HARVARD MARK I