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Yes, ENIAC was the first electronic digital computer (what most people refer to as "computers" today), however different sorts of mechanical computers had been developed before it.
However, ENIAC was NOT the 1st Programmable Electronic Computer! Colossus was a sophisticated programmable electronic computer developed by the Top Secret Code Breaking MK ULTRA at Bletchley Park (England's Secret Military Intelligence Decoding Unit). Colossus was built for the purposes of breaking NAZI radio transmission which had been encoded using the NAZI Lorenz cipher system. Sir Flower's First Colossus was up and running in England during 1941, about 2 years prior to invention of ENIAC. So, COLOSSUS was the world's first computer. * Colossus was the first ELECTRONIC computer. It was developed to crack the LORENZ codes the German high command was using (which was more difficult than Enigma). Until recently ENIAC was thought to be the first, but the secrecy of Colossus was finally lifted and we find it (and 9 others) were first operational in Jan 1944 while various portions of ENIAC were made operational in the period of June 1944 through October 1945.
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∙ 11y agono, Bush Differential Analyzer, ABC, Harvard Mark I, Colossus, Zuse Z3, and several others were operational before it.
ENIAC was just the first general purpose programmable electronic digital computer.
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∙ 11y agoENIAC was not the first electronic computer.
The first electronic computer was the Colossus, Bletchley Park, during WWII.
"Eniac was not the first computer, it was the 11th,"
The ABC was indeed a very early digital electronic device, but was not programmable, it was single purpose.
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∙ 11y agoENIAC was not fully operational until two months afterthe end of the war.
ABC & Harvard Mark I were operational in early 1942.
Colossus was operational sometime in 1943.
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∙ 10y agoENIAC was not the first electronic computer, ABC was. However ENIAC was the first programmable general purpose electronic computer.
- ABC: first electronic digital computer, 1942. Speed 30 additions/subtractions per second, purpose solving systems of simultaneous equations up to 29 variables. Built in Ames, Iowa; designed by Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff and built by his graduate student Clifford Berry.
- Colossus: first programmable electronic digital computer, 1944. Speed 25,000 characters per second, purpose breaking messages sent via german SZ42 cypher machine. A total of 11 machines were built at Bletchley Park, UK prior to VE day; designed by Tommy Flowers of the british post office research branch at Dollis Hill.
- ENIAC: first programmable general purpose electronic digital computer, 1946. Speed 5000 additions/subtractions per second in each of 20 accumulators, purpose computing firing tables for many new artillery pieces introduced in WW2 but in fact general purpose. Built in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the Army's ballistics research lab in Aberdeen.
ENIAC's top level design and some circuit design was done by J. Presper Eckert. John Mauchley was not a qualified electronics designer, but he contributed ideas that others designed circuits for. The detailed circuit design of the various different panels was performed by different engineers.
- Robert F. Shaw (function tables)
- Jeffrey Chuan Chu (divider/square-rooter)
- Thomas Kite Sharpless (master programmer)
- Arthur Burks (multiplier)
- Harry Huskey (reader/printer)
- Jack Davis (accumulators)
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∙ 12y agoThe inventers were:
- John Mauchley - idea man but no electronic engineering ability
- Presper Eckert - electronics engineer
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∙ 14y agoyes it was. the IMB personal computer no apple was first ibm was second but ibm was more popular so the other didnt last long
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∙ 10y agono, ENIAC was fully electronic.
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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.
What was the first computer in Pennsylvania?
The first computer made in Pa. was the Eniac at the University of Pa. The first microcomputers was the Altair, an early computer kit. The first commercial microcomputer was the Commodore Vic 20 manufactured at West Chester, Pa.
Where wasthe first computer made?
The first desktop computer was probably the DEC PDP-8 minicomputer in 1965. It came in both desktop & rackmount versions. DEC was in Maynard, Massachusetts.
Who made the ENIAC computer?
The contract for the first ENIAC system was signed on 5th June 1943 and it was constructed by John Mauchley and J. Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering from July, 1943. It was unveiled on February 14, 1946 at Penn, USA.ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator.The ENIAC was the first American digital computer in the modern sense of the word.
What computer was designed for the US Army to calculate trajectories for bombing tables?
Perhaps your thinking of ENIAC, but no ENIAC was designed for calculating artillery firing tables.Both the Norden and Sperry analog computer bombsights preceded ENIAC, but they are electromechanical not electronic. I don't know when the first electronic computer bombsight was made, but remember the Nordens were still in use in the Vietnam war! You can't use tables for bombing, the calculations must be done in real-time.
When did the computer was first made?
That was a computer called ENIAC,but first machine was a calculator.
What first computer was made by?
ENIAC , the first Electronic computer was made by some programmers in the U.S Army, if you are talking about the first calculating machine then it was built by Charles Babbage
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.
What was the first computer in Pennsylvania?
The first computer made in Pa. was the Eniac at the University of Pa. The first microcomputers was the Altair, an early computer kit. The first commercial microcomputer was the Commodore Vic 20 manufactured at West Chester, Pa.
Was the eniac the first computer made?
No. ABC and Harvard Mark I preceded it. Also Konrad Zuse's Z1, Z2, and Z3 preceded it.
What was the name of the first computer invented in 1994 by j. presper eckert and john mauchly?
designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.
Where wasthe first computer made?
The first desktop computer was probably the DEC PDP-8 minicomputer in 1965. It came in both desktop & rackmount versions. DEC was in Maynard, Massachusetts.
Who made the ENIAC computer?
The contract for the first ENIAC system was signed on 5th June 1943 and it was constructed by John Mauchley and J. Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering from July, 1943. It was unveiled on February 14, 1946 at Penn, USA.ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator.The ENIAC was the first American digital computer in the modern sense of the word.
When was the first ENIAC made?
The contract for the first ENIAC system was signed on 5th June 1943 and it was constructed by John Mauchley and J. Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering from July, 1943. It was unveiled on February 14, 1946 at Penn, USA.ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator.The ENIAC was the first American digital computer in the modern sense of the word.
What computer was designed for the US Army to calculate trajectories for bombing tables?
Perhaps your thinking of ENIAC, but no ENIAC was designed for calculating artillery firing tables.Both the Norden and Sperry analog computer bombsights preceded ENIAC, but they are electromechanical not electronic. I don't know when the first electronic computer bombsight was made, but remember the Nordens were still in use in the Vietnam war! You can't use tables for bombing, the calculations must be done in real-time.
Who made the first ever Playstation?
Sony made it in there computer entertainment division
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