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One of the first computers
Answer for the clue "One of the first computers ", 5 letters:
eniac
Alternative clues for the word eniac
- Computer of the 1940s
- Computing machine displayed in part at the Smithsonian
- Room-filling computer unveiled in 1946
- Historic mainframe
- Laptop's '40s ancestor
- Early computing acronym
- Room-sized supercomputer
- Subject of the documentary "Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of W.W. II"
- Historic name in supercomputers
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.