Completed in 1951, the first commercially successful electronic digital computer was the ________.
A) Turing Machine
B) UNIVAC
C) Z1
D) ENIAC

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The first commercially successful electronic digital computer was the UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer), which was completed in 1951. The other options given were not commercially successful or were not completed until after 1951. The Turing Machine, for instance, was a theoretical model of a computing machine proposed by Alan Turing in 1936, while the Z1 was a mechanical computer built by Konrad Zuse in 1938 and the ENIAC was completed in 1945 but was not commercially successful.

Completed in 1951, the First Commercially Successful Electronic Digital Computer