Yes, those were first generation vacuum tube computers.
The first computer was the ENIAC, completed in 1946. It could do simple mathematical equations such as add and subtract.
People who used computers in the 1950's are the same type of people who use them today, namely:MilitaryGovernmentResearchersStudentsBusiness
bick computers :)
Big enough to fill an entire room.
John Von Neuman.
Austin,tx 1950's go UT!!
For a start, Barbie dolls were invented. And, also, in 1950, the first mass production of computers happened.
Grace Hopper, John Backus, etc.
The first commercial computer in the UK (the Eliot 152) was delivered in 1950.
The introduction of the internet occurred in the 1950's when the first computers were made. It was not until decades later, however, when people were able to have their own personal computers.
Mainly the military plus their civilian contractors, and school educators and students. Computer programmers of that era were mathematicians.
No because we have more things that waste electricity today like computers and ipods
A computer in the 1950's would have been the size of a house, so it was both expensive and impractical to own one