17 sept 1955 año - 5.Computers Hit the Commercial Market

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After WWII, in the 1950’s, computer for the commercial use began to become produced. Some commercial uses of this new technology were: Banking and Accounting. One major investor in these new computers was the J. Lyons Company, which focused on the innovation of commercial computing processes. In fact, the J. Lyons Company produced the first commercial computer that was used to run a daily office routine. One interesting Fact about the early commercial computers is that the IBM 650 and the IBM 701 costs approximately four million dollars in today’s economy (this number had been adjusted according to the inflation of the U.S. economy).