(Or "Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator") A href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=first generation computer">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)