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Giant with 17,468 vacuum tubes
Answer for the clue "Giant with 17,468 vacuum tubes ", 5 letters:
eniac
Alternative clues for the word eniac
- Early mainframe name
- Pioneering computer, for short
- Computer of the 1940s
- Rival of the Small-Scale Experimental Machine
- Massive old computer
- Computer built under the code name "Project PX"
- Seminal '40s computer
- Subject of the documentary "Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of W.W. II"
- Computer that weighed 30 tons
- 1946 high-tech wonder
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.