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ENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic computer. Calculating machines had been built before this, but they were mechanical, built for specific tasks and/or used gears to calculate numeric values. ENIAC used vacuum tubes to switch current, and worked with a numbering system other than base 10, which is what humans used. Look ENIAC up on Wikipedia for more information.

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What were the first computers?

ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer.


In the beginning how many types of computers were there?

There was one, the first computer was ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer.


What is ENVAC computer?

Early computers i.e., Electronic Numerical Video and Calculator.


What was the name for one of the first computers invented in 1946 by J.Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania?

ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer)


How many vocum tubes were in the eniac?

The ENIAC has 17,468 vacuum tubes. These tubes were the first technology that made computers function. Modern computers do not use this technology.


Who is the grandaddy of all computers?

The ENIAC is the granddaddy of all computers. It was developed to calculate artillery firing table for the US Army. ENIAC stand for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer. However ENIAC was an architectural dead end and not one computer afterwards was based in anyway on it.


Is the ENIAC still used today?

No, the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) is not used today. It was one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers, developed in the 1940s, and has since been retired. Modern computing technology has vastly surpassed the capabilities of the ENIAC, making it obsolete. However, it remains historically significant as a pioneering achievement in computer science.


When did they discovered computers?

1930-1940 American physicist John Atanasoff built the first rudimentary electronic computer in the late 1930s and early 1940s, although for several decades afterward credit for the first electronic computer went to the scientists who assembled the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) for the United States military by 1945. Danish physicist Allan Mackintosh recounts in a Scientific American article how Atanasoff first conceived of the design principles that are still used in present-day computers.


When did the first ever computer come out?

The IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), called the Mark I by Harvard University,[1] was the first large-scale automatic digital computer in the USA. It is considered by some to be the first universal calculator. The electromechanical ASCC was devised by Howard H. Aiken created at IBM, shipped to Harvard in February 1944, and formally delivered there on August 7, 1944 - mayur_vaghela@yahoo.co.uk


What does enaiac stand for in the computer world?

ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. It was one of the earliest electronic general-purpose computers, developed in the United States during World War II and completed in 1945. ENIAC was primarily designed for calculating artillery firing tables for the Army but went on to perform a variety of complex calculations, marking a significant milestone in the history of computing.


What is the difference between a programmable calculator and a computer?

Pretty much everything we use is a computer, whether they're programmable or not. game controllers have computers. smartphones are computers. monitors have computers in them. TVs also do. Cars have them. and of course, calculators are computers also.


How is computers what was available before?

before electronic computers there were human computers (i.e. humans doing calculations with pencil and paper, if they were lucky a mechanical desk calculator and a book of precalculated mathematical tables).