#computer firsts

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UNIVAC I - Showing Operator Control Board, Central Processor, and Magnetic Tape Drive Units. The first commercially available computer, 1951: 2.2 MHz bit rate, internal storage capacity 1000 words or 12,000 characters. The UNIVAC was also the first computer to come equipped with a magnetic tape unit and was the first computer to use buffer memory. (via computermuseum.li)

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AKAT-1 - The first transistor-based differential equation analyzer built by Polish computer science and engineering pioneer, Jacek Karpiński at the Polish Academy of Science's Institute of Automatics in 1959.