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Este Cmap, tiene información relacionada con: Brianne Weber - Inventing the Future - exercise, cost $3M to build Materials Vacuum tubes, Created the ENIAC People didn't see significance People thought world market for computers would be 1 dozen or so, New uses Police services Cattle breeders Administrative offices factory automation ???? 1960 10,000 computers in USA, Business must automate to remain competitive, eliminate tedium, free men for better jobs Son wanted to upgrade but father wanted to keep with what they had Culture of Yes men Son T.H. Watson, JR noticed customers ordering Univac would speak out to Chairman, Transistor 1947 most important invention of 20th century Invented Transistor Barton Bardeen Shockly Nobel prize, Transistor 1947 most important invention of 20th century importance Transistor used as a swith size heat power speed reliable allowed larger circuit design, J. Presper Eckert John Mauchly Partners Worlds first computer company EMCC, Created the ENIAC Problems in Early Stages of Development cost $3M to build, Problem of wiring the components together Tyrrany of numbers ???? TI Jack Kilby' Fairchild Robe3rt Noyce -- IC 1959, Created the ENIAC Purpose Candidate for computation repetitivve tediiouswork Inventory control, payroll, invoicing, Struggle for investors Was going to give funds 1948 AmTote Harry Strauss Oct 1949 death, Univac Universal automatic computer Proof of Accuracy to that of Humans Publicity PR move 1952 election Predicted election on basis of early returns, Business Punched card accounting machines single purpose machines Growing Demand for Computers rendered their machines obsolite 1953 3 machines delivered, 9 on order IBM nowhere, Business Punched card accounting machines single purpose machines Growing Demand for Computers rendered their machines obsolite Business must automate to remain competitive, eliminate tedium, free men for better jobs, Cost -- demand only from space/military applications worldevents 1961 USSR Gargarin space Kennedy challenge place man on moon US were Determined to beat USSR NASA Spaceship needed SMALL computer Required micro chips cost not a problem, ERMA Process checks - accounts MICR took jobs that nobody wanted People were afraid of Being replaced by Computers, Fortran write equations for scientific ???? High level language, Compiler machine translation of symbolic code to machine code, High level language, Compiler machine translation of symbolic code to machine code ???? COBOL Common Business Oriented Lang resembled english files of data, report, NASA Spaceship needed SMALL computer Required micro chips cost not a problem Other uses Pentagon Minuteman II, Polaris missle, Created the ENIAC Britain Wanted to Keep up with US Univac Universal automatic computer