1. Rise Of IBM
IBM came to be the leading "computer" manufacturer of the time, although computers were mostly punch card machines that could sort out information by processing decks of punch cards. Along the way, some "plug board" machines were produced, which could generate selective computational processes dictated by appropriate plugging of wires on a board that was then inserted into a computing machine. ... Eckert's "computer" was actually an assemblage of miscellaneous data processing machines, punch cards and such, wired together to perform the computations that Eckert designed. ... A great deal ...
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