Historia de la Computación en República Dominicana.

This paper provides a summary of issues related to the evolution of computing Dominican Republic. Computers emerged in our society due to the relentless pursuit that man has to discover and develop new items for today's world. At first man enough to use your fingers or pebbles to count, but as he grew intellectually realized that was not enough with that system. That led him to create systems such as Abacus. The Arabic number system and the concept of zero are examples of the evolution of human thought, with a profound impact on our society. The history of computing in the Dominican Republic, back in 1955 with the arrival of the first computer UNIVAC 120, this time at the Fair of peace of the free world gave calculation service to geographic institute. Although earlier this year electromechanical equipment calls tabulation systems were used, which were part of an automated system. Despite his arrival in 1963, it was in early 1964 when the UNIVAC installed for operation in the Central Romana Corporation, soon to be hired by the Ministry of Finance, Directorate General of Internal Revenue, Dominican Institute of Social Security. UNIVAC the Universal Automatic Computer represented the first commercial computer can process numeric and textual data. His ability made her run large quantities operational and effective transportation of data. The UNIVAC consisted of 5,000 vacuum tubes and had a capacity of 1000 Perform calculations per second. In his appearance on the market it came despite 16,000 pounds and its price was around US $ 1.5 million