Computing accurate artillery firing tables for all the Army's new guns coming out in WW2 as well as all the new and different conditions in which they were being fired.
it originally cost $500,000, and was government funded. Check below for more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eniac
5 million terabytes.
The ENIAC was designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, but it's first use was in calculations for the hydrogen bomb.
The ENIAC was designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, but it's first use was in calculations for the hydrogen bomb.
ENIAC was the First computer that was used to store program.
They entered the programs, which was a task beneath the male mathematicians that designed the programs.
The electronic numerical integrator and computer, or ENIAC, was designed to discover, monitor, and predict flight paths of weapons.
ENIAC was built in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Penn. Designed and built under the supervision of John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
what was eniac?
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.
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