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Cloud Computing Genealogy The first American computer designed at the outset for business and administrative use - UNIVAC 1 It used 5,200 vacuum tubes, weighed 13 metric tons, consumed 125 kW, and could perform about 1,905 operations per second running on a 2.25 MHz clock. The Central Complex alone (i.e. the processor and memory unit) was 4.3 m by 2.4 m by 2.6 m high. The complete system occupied more than 35.5 m² of floor space. It was used by CBS to predict the result of the 1952 presidential election and even more astonishingly, with a sample of just 1% of the voting population it famously predicted an Eisenhower landslide. Image courtesy: rcsri, pingdom, flickr
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 11:34:16 +0000

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