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page 1Computer-related introductions in 1951

EDVAC
thumb|275px|The EDVAC as installed in Building 328 at the Ballistic Research Laboratory
EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was one of the earliest electronic computers. It was built by Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Along with ORDVAC, it was a successor to the ENIAC. Unlike ENIAC, it was binary rather than decimal, and was designed to be a stored-program computer.
tape drive
data storage device that reads and writes data on a magnetic tape

UNIVAC
UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) was a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation. After capturing the public imagination with the use of the UNIVAC I during the 1952 US Presidential election it was decided to extend the branding to all machines made by the other computing divisions of the Remington Rand company (Engineering Research Associates and the Norwalk Laboratory of Remington Rand).
UNIVAC I
general purpose business computer model first produced in the United States in 1951.
Whirlwind
vacuum tube computer
LEO I
1951 computer
magnetic tape data storage
system for storing digital information on magnetic tape

Harwell computer
Early British computer