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Computing behemoth
Answer for the clue "Computing behemoth ", 5 letters:
eniac
Alternative clues for the word eniac
- "Giant Brain" of 1940s headlines
- '40s-'50s computer
- Computer built under the code name "Project PX"
- Device originally made to calculate artillery firing tables
- '40s-'50s "Giant Brain"
- Giant computer unveiled in 1946
- Historic mainframe
- "Giant Brain" that debuted in 1946
- Granddaddy of all modern computers
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.