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1940s computer
Answer for the clue "1940s computer ", 5 letters:
eniac
Alternative clues for the word eniac
- Room-size computer introduced in 1946
- Computer built under the code name "Project PX"
- Calculating 30-ton monster of the '40s
- Subject of the documentary "Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of W.W. II"
- Thirty-ton computer
- Univac's predecessor
- Penn's "Giant Brain"
- Computer developed in the 1940s
- Subject of the 1973 Honeywell v. Sperry Rand case
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.