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High-tech marvel decommissioned in 1955
Answer for the clue "High-tech marvel decommissioned in 1955 ", 5 letters:
eniac
Alternative clues for the word eniac
- 1946 creation originally intended to calculate ballistics tables
- Acronymic computer of the 1940s
- "Giant Brain" of the '40s
- Granddaddy of all modern computers
- 1940s creation called a "giant brain" in the press
- 1946 high-tech unveiling at the Univ. of Pennsylvania
- 1946 University of Pennsylvania computing invention
- Old 30-ton computer
- Laptop's '40s ancestor
- Device originally made to calculate artillery firing tables
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.