| Aiken's computer, called the Mark 1, accepted information through
paper tape. It stored and processed the
information. It printed the results on an electric typewriter. The Mark
I was able to do many different tasks. It was a huge machine. It took up
the space of a school gymnasium. It took only a few seconds to calculate
a math problem-quite a feat for 1944! The Mark I is known today as the world's
first electromechanical computer. |
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The age of "modern computers" began in 1944. In that year an
American engineer at Harvard University, Howard Aiken, built a computer.
It worked very much like a machine designed more than 100 years earlier-Babbage's
Analytical Engine. |
