1950's Computer Inventions

  • ERA (UNIVAC) 1101

    38' x 20' computer with the first stored program on its magnetic drum using vacuum tubes rather than telephone relay cables to compute."1101" is binary code for the number 13; "ERA" was for the Engineering Research Associates who designed and built this machine. Originally sold to US Navy in 1950; sold commercially in Dec 1951.

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