EDVAC (Electronic discrete variable automatic computer)

• It was invented in 1949
• The design of EDVAC was important because it served as a model for future decimak based computers like itself. It was the first multipurpose computer and it would run for 20 hours a day and was built for the army ballistec research lab
• The predecessor of the EDVAC is the ENIAC which was a general purpose computer
• The inventor was John P. Eckert and John W. Mauchly and it cost about 500k to make
• A fun fact about EDVAC is that it is one of the first computers with autmatic addition, subtraction, and multiplication