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Invention of mainframe computers
Mainframes gain a strategic advantage
Due to the further development of the first calculating machines and the fact that mechanical calculating machines took over mathematical tasks of humans much more efficiently at some point in history, the machines became larger and larger. Calculating machines became mainframes and not only since Konrad Zuse and the Z3 the early computers could do things for which humans would have needed more time recently. Especially during the time of the Second World War, great computing power was used to better calculate ballistic projectiles or to decipher messages of the enemy. It can be rightly said that the world war gave an immense boost to the further development of the computer.
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Table of contents
| YR | NAME | INVENTOR |
|---|---|---|
| — | Introduction | |
| 1938 | Z1 – Z4 |  |
| 1941 | Atanasoff Berry Computer |  |
| 1943 | Harvard Mark I |  |
| 1943 | Colossus |  |
| 1945 | Whirlwind |  |
| 1946 | ENIAC |  |
| 1950 | IBM 650 |  |
| 1951 | UNIVAC |  |
| 1954 | TRADIC |  |
| 1960 | PDP-1 |  |