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From Aberdeen I acquired an old computer
Answer for the clue "From Aberdeen I acquired an old computer ", 5 letters:
eniac
Alternative clues for the word eniac
- Subject of the documentary "Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of W.W. II"
- Computer of the '40s
- U. of Penn. early computer
- Thirty-ton computer
- Computer that was designed to calculate W.W.II artillery firing tables
- Ancestor of the modern digital computer
- Big computer of the 1940s (or actor Michael in reverse)
- Granddaddy of digital computers
- Digital computer of yore
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.