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jan 8, 1951 - UNIVAC become the first commercially successful computer.

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The UNIVAC, designed by J Presper Eckert, become the first commercially successful computer. The computer could handle Numbers and Text, the first one was sold to the US Bureau of Census.

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jan 8, 1951
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~ 74 years ago