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More or less, by rewiring it with cables that ran around the machine on a cable tray shelf. It could take several weeks to connect all the cables for a specific problem, then if a mistake had been made either in designing the program or in connecting cables, several weeks more debugging it and making it run correctly. Also while testing and debugging you were almost certain to get a tube failure which had to be located and fixed before you could continue (the longest run without a tube failure was just over 150 hours, on average locating and fixing a tube failure took under 15 minutes due to replaceable plugable modules that could be swapped and repaired later). Programming also involved setting hundreds of rotary switches to select modes of operation, functions, and constants in lookup tables. Any of those switches set wrong also needs debugging.
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Did the ENIAC use Microsoft?
No. ENIAC was invented long before Microsoft was founded.
The world's first general-purpose electronic computer in 1946?
ENIAC, in in 1946
Did the first computer have a screen?
No. the ENIAC had a printer instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
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.
Was ENIAC is a first generation computer?
sure
What was the first digital computer for?
ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer and designed to calculate artillery firing tables. It was capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.
11 What was ENIAC?
what was eniac?
How made the eniac?
http://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/comphist/eniac-story.html
How was the eniac made?
http://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/comphist/eniac-story.html
ENIAC the computer at what date was it finished?
The ENIAC computer was finished in November, 1945.
Did the ENIAC use Microsoft?
No. ENIAC was invented long before Microsoft was founded.
What were the dimensions of the mark 1 veRsus the ENIAC?
what were the dimensions of the mark I versus the ENIAC
The world's first general-purpose electronic computer in 1946?
ENIAC, in in 1946
Did the first computer have a screen?
No. the ENIAC had a printer instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
How much energy did the eniac use?
The ENIAC used 160 kilowatts (160,000 watts).
Did eniac help clifford berry invent the first electronic computer?
berry had nothing to do with ENIAC
When was ENIAC prpoduced?
1945
