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Pioneering computer of the 1940s
Answer for the clue "Pioneering computer of the 1940s ", 5 letters:
eniac
Alternative clues for the word eniac
- Digital computer of yore
- First digital computer
- World's first computer
- Granddaddy of all computers
- Supercomputer built at the University of Pennsylvania
- Giant with 17,468 vacuum tubes
- 1946 University of Pennsylvania computing invention
- One of the first computers
- Military computer built under the codename "Project PX"
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.