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The idea of computing has been in people’s minds throughout history. Today we have a different idea of computers, but a computer is any complex counting machine. The first computer ever used by a person could have been a simple set of stones that he used to repr ....

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.... The vacuum tubes that the computer ran on failed frequently. They were down and not running for most of the time. But these new machines were big news to the public. The media became very interested in them. They wrote about them in newspapers and magazines calling them “electronic brains” That will change the world. In 1953 IBM realized that a market existed for business computers. They introduced a total of 19 of these computers for businesses. The computers were very large, expensive, and needed a large staff of professional people just to run them. Punch cards were used to give the first generation computer data and instructions. The second ....