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The First Generation Of Computers
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, beginning around the end of World War 2,
and continuing until around the year 1957, included computers that used vacuum
tubes, drum memories, and programming in machine code. Computers at that time
where mammoth machines that did not have the power our present day desktop
microcomputers.
In 1 ....
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....ttered its predecessors by
functioning well aboard airplanes.
In 1956, the first system for storing files to be accessed randomly was
completed. The RAMAC (Random-Access Method for Accounting and Control) 305
could access any of 50 magnetic disks. It was capable of storing 5 million
characters, within a second. In 1962, the concept was expanded with research in
replaceable disk packs.
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