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Size of first computer

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The First Computer (EINIAC) Was Roughly The Size Of A Warehouse And Cost Alot of Money. EINIAC Was Not A Good computer Because Vacum Tubes Would Burn Out And Would Cost A Fortune To Repair. And Because EINIAC's Vacum Tubes Burned Out EINIAC Was Often Unreliable.

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It took up an entire room. See this link: http://www.connected-earth.com/Galleries/Frombuttonstobytes/Intothedigitalera/Thecomputeragedawns/index.htm

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well ENIAC had 18,000 vacuum tubes an was built on 40 standard 19 inch telephone relay racks, if that gives any idea.

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The first computer was build by IBM and it is two factory big. By now whatever that two factory contain can be contained in your slim laptop.

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The first computer was roughly the size of a small house, and had vacuum tubes.

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The first computer was big enough to fill an entire room. It was known as "ENIAC", and was entirely vacuum tube circuitry.

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The first computer known to have been made was housed in a wooden box approximately 340 × 180 × 90 mm in size. It was a mechanical analog computer that performed astronomical calculations.

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It was the size of a room.

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