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The First Computer War - The Electronic Brain | 1

Business Wars

English - April 19, 2018 07:05 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 12.2K ratings
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With so much information at our fingertips, it’s hard to remember that we haven’t always walked around with supercomputers in our pockets. In fact, in 1952, CBS thought that Americans would find it SO hard to imagine that a machine could even predict election results accurately that they built a pretend computer and resorted to, well, fake news, to make the public believe. This is Univac vs. IBM, and this is the First Computer War.


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