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1946 high-tech wonder
Answer for the clue "1946 high-tech wonder ", 5 letters:
eniac
Alternative clues for the word eniac
- Big name in computer history
- "Giant Brain" of the '40s
- 1946 creation originally intended to calculate ballistics tables
- "Giant Brain" that debuted in 1946
- Massive old computer
- Calculating 30-ton monster of the '40s
- Old computing acronym
- Military computer built under the codename "Project PX"
- World's first large-scale computer
Word definitions for eniac in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
acronym from "electronic numeral integrator and computer," device built 1946 at University of Pennsylvania by John W. Mauchly Jr., J. Presper Eckert Jr., and J.G. Brainerd. It cost $400,000, used 18,000 radio tubes, and was housed in a 30-foot-by-50-foot ...
Usage examples of eniac.
A modern personal computer has far more power and reliability than the first Eniac, and the "hydrocodes" which enable a computer to test and validate a weapon's design are easily duplicated.
All the work on the first hydrogen bomb was done on the first primitive computers - Eniac, I think it was called.