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What is memory in first commercial computer?

The UNIVAC I used recirculating acoustic mercury delay lines for memory. Such delay lines were originally developed during WWII as part of RADAR display analog signal processing circuits to remove stationary background clutter from the screen and make it easier to identify moving targets. Several engineers hired by Eckert and Machley came from a RADAR background, so this type of memory was logical to use.

What are the four stages of the listening process?

The process of Listening:

1. Receiving: the stage of receiving involves the basic need to getting or hearing the right conversation, as to,what the other person wants to say or express.

2. Attending: the way, wherein,you should be conscious and alert about what the other person has said.

3. Understanding: an important and basic step wherein you can analyze about the exact situation.

4. Responding: by answering the query or by reacting on a particular situation.

5. And also, Remembering.

Full form of nsfnet?

National Science Foundation Network

What was the significance of the punch card?

It is the medium by which people communicate with computers in the olden days. Computer programs are written in punched cards, input data are also written in punched cards. There was a special machine called "card reader" to interpret what were in the punched cards and convert them into machine readable form.

Which technology was used in fifth generation computer?

Fifth generation computing was a design program, starting in 1982, to use massively parallel processing. it's purpose was to lay the groundwork for supercomputers and artificial intelligence.

First generation used vacuum tubes.

Second generation used transistors and diodes.

Third generation used integrated circuits.

Fourth generation used microprocessors.

Fifth generation was to use massive parallel processing.

This plan was to last for ten years, after which it was considered ended.

and a sixth generation would begin.

Obviously, since over 30 years have passed, we have just barely begun using massively parallel processing. The most advanced personal computers use quad core architecture, while industrial versions can use thousands of sub-processors.

Is the number of bits in a word the same in every computer?

No, computers have been built with as few as 1 bit in a word to 72 bits in a word and architectures have been proposed with as many as 256 bits in a word.

Why was there acellerated graphics and not accelerated sound?

so i ask because i realize in the old windows98/3.1 sound cards like sound blaster sound card memory wasn't a very noticeable aspect of the sound card

why didn't they just use a controlled power bus and a mixing program in the software on the computers memory then put a channel selector chip with high range and extra range for overlapping addresses so as to create extremely high quality surround sound cards?

why do you need a driver for it? why didn't/doesn't windows just use a universal sound driver and reduce the amount of "hops" before the receiving device and increase quality?

it dosent make sense

newer surround sound devices i pods and sound-cards are getting crappy

they look sexy but they not as committed

Keyboard celsius sign?

Alt + 0176 = °

you have to use the 'num-lock' keypad, otherwise it will fail to work!!

How did Jon Von Neumann originally make the computer?

he didn't

well according to section 5 article 3 Jon von neumann started off as anyother man would and he started with the motherboard. he then got a group of Harvard scholars to help build the rest of the computer.

John von Neumann was first introduced to computers when he was working on the Manhattan project and was given access to the electromechanical Harvard Mark I to solve a difficult system of partial differential equations related to part of the MK-3 Fatman design. Shortly after the end of WW2, while it was still secret, he was given access to ENIAC and assisted in programming it to simulate Edward Teller's "Classical Super" hydrogen fusion bomb design (this program ran through December 1945 and January 1946, showing that design to be unworkable). He wrote the first paper on computers that stored both program and data in the same memory (although the ideas originated from others). On return to Princeton, he designed his own computer the IAS machine (no motherboard, the idea did not exist then) which was supposed to have 4K 40-bit words of RCA Selectron vacuum tube memory. RCA was unable to build the 4K Selectron tubes he wanted, so the machine first ran with 256 40-bit words of RCA Selectron memory. It was soon upgraded to 1K 40-bit words of Williams tube CRT DRAM, then in about 1954 to 4K 40-bit words of ferrite core magnetic memory. The IAS machine was one of the most copied early computers, as he gave copies of its specifications, documentation, and schematics to anyone that asked. IBM even based their first scientific computer the IBM 701 loosely on the IAS machine, except they reduced the word size from 40-bits to 36-bits.

What is the name of first technopark in India?

Technopark trivandrum,kerala

established in 1992.

First and largest it park in India

What happened on October 23 1955?

People of Saar rejected a vote of more than 2 to 1 a statue placing the Saar under neutral control of the Western European union. (I looked this up, I am not a nerd!!!! LOL!!! :-) )