(a) Match each of the following computing devices. COMPUTER DEVICES USES EDVAC Electronic general-purpose computer programmed to perform complex sequences o...

Answer Details

The three descriptions in the question have been shuffled. Each early electronic computer is matched to the description that historically belongs to it.

Reasoning:

• ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, 1945) was the first large-scale, electronic, general-purpose machine. It was reprogrammed by rewiring to carry out long, complex sequences of operations.
• EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer, 1949) was the first widely known machine designed to work in binary, and it performed automatic addition, subtraction, multiplication and programmed division.
• UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer, 1951) was an electronic digital stored-program computer built for the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and later famous for predicting a presidential election result.