(Or "Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator") A first generation computer developed in 1944 by {Howard Aiken} of {Harvard University}.The Mark 1 is seen as the first full-sized digital computer.It weighed 5 tons, had 500 miles of wiring, was used only for numeric calculations, and took three seconds to carry out one multiplication.[Mechanism?Capacity?Programmability?](1996-11-24)