Early computers were first called “calculators, “because “computers” Were people who
Solved math equations. The early machines were built for a specific task counting people, calculating artillery firing coordinates, or forecasting Weather. The first general-purpose computers emerged at the end of World War II in the form of the 30-ton ENIAC, the “electronic numerical integrator and computer” that could count to 50 in a second (Aguilar, 1996). The next technological leap was Sperry-Rand’s UNIVAC, or “Universal Automatic Computer,” which reached
The market in 1950.