Your solution works, except for stripping newlines (because of the chomp). If you just change the print FILE2 line to:
print FILE2 $Previous, "\n";
Then it will do what you want.
Here's an alternate command-line solution:
perl -ane 'print unless $seen{$F[0]}++' /tmp/data
See perlrun for the -ane options. Here's what it looks like in use:
[me@host me]$ cat /tmp/data
COMPUTER DISTRIBUTION_ID STATUS </br>
30F-WKS `1781183799.xxxx1' IC---</br>
30F-WKS `1781183799.xxx11' IC---</br>
ADM34A3F9 `1781183799.41455' IC---</br>
[me@host me]$ perl -ane 'print unless $seen{$F[0]}++' /tmp/data
COMPUTER DISTRIBUTION_ID STATUS </br>
30F-WKS `1781183799.xxxx1' IC---</br>
ADM34A3F9 `1781183799.41455' IC---</br>
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