EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was one of the earliest electronic

computers. Unlike its predecessor the ENIAC, it was binary rather than decimal, and was a
stored program machine.

The EDVAC is the successor of the ENIAC. Made by the same designers: Mauchly and Eckert.

PROGRAMMING AND NUMERICAL SYSTEM

Internal number system Binary
Binary digits per word 44
Binary digits per instruction 4 bits/command
10 bits each address
Instruction per word 1
Instructions decoded 16
Instruction used 12
Arithmetic system Floating and Fixed point
Instruction type Four-address code

The UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial computer produced
in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the
inventors of the ENIAC. Design work was begun by their company, Eckert-Mauchly Computer
Corporation, and was completed after the company had been acquired by Remington Rand. (In
the years before successor models of the UNIVAC I appeared, the machine was simply known as
"the UNIVAC".)

The UNIVAC I was the world's first commercially available computer.

The first UNIVAC I was delivered on June 14, 1951. From 1951 to 1958 a total of 46 UNIVAC I
computers were delivered, all of which have since been phased out.

In 1947, John Mauchly chose the name "UNIVAC" (Universal Automatic Computer) for his
company's product.

The machine was 25 feet by 50 feet in length, contained 5,600 tubes, 18,000 crystal diodes, and
300 relays. It utilized serial circuitry, 2.25 MHz bit rate, and had an internal storage capacity
1,000 words or 12,000 characters.

It utilized a Mercury delay line, magnetic tape, and typewriter output.

The UNIVAC was used for general purpose computing with large amounts of input and output.

Power consumption was about 120 kva. Its reported processing speed was 0.525 milliseconds
for arithmetic functions, 2.15 milliseconds for multiplication and 3.9 Milliseconds for division.

The UNIVAC I was also the first computer to come equipped with a magnetic tape unit and was
the first computer to use buffer memory.

The first UNIVAC was delivered to the United States Census Bureau on March 31, 1951, and was
dedicated on June 14 that year. The fifth machine (built for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission)
was used by CBS to predict the result of the 1952 presidential election. With a sample of just
1% of the voting population it correctly predicted that Dwight Eisenhower would win. The
UNIVAC I computers were built by Remington Rand's UNIVAC division (successor of the Eckert-
Mauchly Computer Corporation, bought by Rand in 1950).

ENIAC short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first general-purpose,
electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete, digital computer capable of being
reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.

ENIAC was designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic
Research Laboratory, but its first use was in calculations for the hydrogen bomb. When ENIAC
was announced in 1946 it was heralded in the press as a "Giant Brain". It boasted speeds one
thousand times faster than electro-mechanical machines, a leap in computing power that no
single machine has since matched. This mathematical power, coupled with general-purpose
programmability, excited scientists and industrialists. The inventors promoted the spread of
these new ideas by teaching a series of lectures on computer architecture.

Codename: ENIAC

CPU: 17,468 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, 1,500 relays, and 6,000 manual
switches

CPU speed ENIAC could execute 5,000 additions, 357 multiplications, and 38 divisions in one
second

introduced 1946

OS hard wired

initial price total cost approximately $500,000

footprint 167,3 m2

energy consumption 180 kW