Commercial Digital Computer Birthplace
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Gosffo
N 40° 00.133 W 075° 11.221
18T E 484036 N 4428020
Could they have ever dreamed that their computer would be laptop sized!
Waymark Code: WM82R1
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 01/17/2010
Views: 8
Marker Text: BINAC, the world’s first commercial, electronic, stored program, digital computer passed verification tests here, at 3747 Ridge Ave., on April 7, 1949. Customer acceptance of UNIVAC I, the world’s first open market, commercial computer, followed on March 30, 1951. J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly, co-inventors of ENIAC, led the development of both of these pioneering machines, which launched the commercial computer age.
Marker Name: Commercial Digital Computer Birthplace
County: Philadelphia
Date Dedicated: 09/28/2006
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: 3747 Ridge Ave., Philadelphia
Category: Business & Industry, Invention
Website: [Web Link]
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