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Computing machine displayed in part at the Smithsonian
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eniac
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ENIAC ( or ; Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer ) was the first electronic general-purpose computer . It was Turing-complete , digital, and could solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming. Although ENIAC was designed and ...
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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 ...
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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.