First Draft Of A Report On The EDVAC

Term Paper Title	First Draft Of A Report On The EDVAC
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.57

First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC

Pd.4 Assignment for 8/24/04

Early tools changed how people conducted business and communicated with each other. Back in 1945 John von Neumann wrote "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" in which he outlined the architecture of a stored-program computer. The computer was a major change in business, people could store information on the computer and not have file cabinets full of papers. Back then computers weren�t much help, but they served there purpose. Now a days the computer helps people mostly so they don�t have to go searching through a pile of papers just for one thing, instead they could just type in the file name and the computer would bring it up for them. Back in 1947 Point-contact transistors� were the way of contacting one another. In these days 2004 the number of ways of contacting one another is great. We have cell phones, house, and business phones, via e-mail, instant messaging, walkie-talkies and so much more. In 1951 The UNIVAC I delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau was the first commercial computer to attract widespread public attention. Although manufactured by Remingt...

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