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Atanasoff-Berry Computer. It was a special purpose computer built just before WW2 to solve systems of simultaneous equations of up to 29 variables. It was built in Ames Iowa. It was finished and doing work for the Statistics Department of the university before the war, but was still having some input/output reliability problems, that prevented it from handling problems up to its full design limit, when it was abandoned as its designers moved to war related work.
Although Mauchly always denied it, he was probably inspired to use digital vacuum tube logic in ENIAC by the demonstration he saw of this machine. All his notes on computing machines before this demonstration related only to analog machines.
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What was the first electronic computer that used vacuum tubes?
ENIAC
How many vacuum tubes are in the Univac I computer?
It used 5200 vacuum tubes.
Did Alan Turing made the vacuum tubes computers?
No, he had to use mechanical gears, etc. because they were the only device technology available in his time. Electric relays were first developed about 15 years after he designed his computer, while vacuum tubes were first developed about 90 years after he designed his computer.
What is the first prototype computer?
The prototype for the Atanasoff-Berry computer was demonstrated in October 1939, it used 11 vacuum tubes. The full Atanasoff-Berry computer (the first electronic digital computer) was finished in early 1942, it used 280 vacuum tubes, 31 thyratrons, and was about the size of a desk.
Why the first-generation of computer use vacuum tubes?
The first digital computer that used vacuum tubes was the ABC, completed in 1942 by Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry in Ames, IA.An early analog computer that used vacuum tubes was the Differential Analyzer, completed in 1929 by Vannevar Bush and a large team at MIT. (there probably were other smaller analog computers of this type that used vacuum tubes before this, so it probably isn't the first but its the earliest where I can find it clearly documented).
What electronic device used as a switch in the first digital computer?
vacuum tubes
How do you explain the generation of computer with a diagram?
A diagram that explains the generation of the computer can be found on the Scribd website. First generation computers used vacuum tubes.
What are computer tubes used for?
Computer tubes, also known as vacuum tube computers are programmable computers that uses vacuum tube logic circuitry. They were used to solve computational problems much like modern day computers.
Which computer generation used transistor in it?
The Second Generation Computer used transistors
What computers will used vacuum tubes?
First generation computers.
What generation computers used vacuum tubes?
FIRST GENERATION
What generation was vacuum tubes used?
first generation computers
