Lecture 1 - Introduction to computing and computing history
... – Low power consumption – Low cost – High reliability ...
... – Low power consumption – Low cost – High reliability ...
The History of Computers
... The general count of the population, then 63 million, took only 6 weeks to calculate! ...
... The general count of the population, then 63 million, took only 6 weeks to calculate! ...
History of computers
... (grad student) at University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering , proposed to build a generalpurpose computer using vacuum tubes. The first general purpose electronic digital computer was designed to respond to US war time needs during world war II. A vacuum tube is : electroni ...
... (grad student) at University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering , proposed to build a generalpurpose computer using vacuum tubes. The first general purpose electronic digital computer was designed to respond to US war time needs during world war II. A vacuum tube is : electroni ...
Computer History ENIAC - tech
... The US‐built ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first electronic general‐ purpose computer. It combined, for the first time, the high speed of electronics with the ability to be programmed for many complex problems. It could add or subtract 5000 t ...
... The US‐built ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first electronic general‐ purpose computer. It combined, for the first time, the high speed of electronics with the ability to be programmed for many complex problems. It could add or subtract 5000 t ...
ENIAC
ENIAC (/ˈini.æk/ or /ˈɛni.æk/; Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer. It was Turing-complete, digital, and capable of being reprogrammed to solve ""a large class of numerical problems."" Though ENIAC was designed and primarily used to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, its first programs included a study of the feasibility of the hydrogen bomb.When ENIAC was announced in 1946, it was heralded in the press as a ""Giant Brain."" It had a speed on the order of one thousand (103) times faster than that of electro-mechanical machines; this computational power, coupled with general-purpose programmability, excited scientists and industrialists alike.