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New Market include Transistor 1947 most important invention of 20th century, Worlds first computer company EMCC First Univac sold to First Unnivac Census Bureau, Britain J. Lyons Co (Tea, pastries) First UK computer company Invented Cambridge EDSAC, First Unnivac Census Bureau for US Census bureau dowwnin in punched cards mandate 10 year census tabulation, 1948 AmTote Harry Strauss Oct 1949 death result sold firm to remington rand typewriters, shavers, punched card tab, People thought world market for computers would be 1 dozen or so other New Market, High level language, Compiler machine translation of symbolic code to machine code Problem Writing software 2-4 times cost of computer itself, Univac Universal automatic computer Probelm was 18000 vacuum tubes reliability questionable because burn outs cause failure, Worlds first computer company EMCC Founders J. Presper Eckert John Mauchly, Programming was crisis could have jeapordized growth of computer ind Solution binary Machine lang Assembly Lang, Univac Universal automatic computer costs cost $3M to build, Transistor 1947 most important invention of 20th century Purpose Transistor used as a swith size heat power speed reliable allowed larger circuit design, 1956 IBM soared past Remington RandUnivac sales 1960 10,000 computers in USA, Candidate for computation repetitivve tediiouswork Inventory control, payroll, invoicing and Business Punched card accounting machines single purpose machines, 1948 still behind schedule difficulty McCarthyism Marchly, loss of defence contracts, Univac Universal automatic computer Invented by (Company) Worlds first computer company EMCC, Inventing The Future First Computer Univac Universal automatic computer, Programming was crisis could have jeapordized growth of computer ind Why High level language, Compiler machine translation of symbolic code to machine code, IBM Strength Sales force Am hero Nothing hapens until it is sold Spread of IBM 1956 IBM soared past Remington RandUnivac, Univac Universal automatic computer used for Candidate for computation repetitivve tediiouswork Inventory control, payroll, invoicing, Transistor used as a swith size heat power speed reliable allowed larger circuit design replaces Vacuum tubes, Worlds first computer company EMCC Production Inventing basic technologies mag tape, mercury tanks (RAM) , IBM Strength Sales force Am hero Nothing hapens until it is sold Proplems w/IBM Programming was crisis could have jeapordized growth of computer ind, IBM 1953 650 fit directly within punched card environment Model T of computers first mass produced computer result 1956 IBM soared past Remington RandUnivac, Struggle for investors because People thought world market for computers would be 1 dozen or so, binary Machine lang Assembly Lang languages COBOL Common Business Oriented Lang resembled english files of data, report, binary Machine lang Assembly Lang languages Fortran write equations for scientific, Worlds first computer company EMCC getting started was Struggle for investors, Publicity PR move 1952 election Predicted election on basis of early returns Question of Ability CBS did not believe computer results Machine was right Eisenhower landslide on 5% of votes, 18000 vacuum tubes reliability questionable because burn outs cause failure also Difficult to program, Inventing The Future by Amanda Meseke, New Market New Compitiion IBM 1953 650 fit directly within punched card environment Model T of computers first mass produced computer, 1948 still behind schedule difficulty getting customers Prudential Insurance Co. law requiring recalculation of insurance rates, 1953 3 machines delivered, 9 on order IBM nowhere response IBM 1953 650 fit directly within punched card environment Model T of computers first mass produced computer, People thought world market for computers would be 1 dozen or so Competition 1953 3 machines delivered, 9 on order IBM nowhere, Worlds first computer company EMCC downfall 1948 AmTote Harry Strauss Oct 1949 death