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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.
what was eniac?
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
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.
ENIAC was designed and built in WW2 for the following purposes:Calculate new firing tables for existing artillery pieces in use where existing tables were found inadequateCalculate firing tables for new artillery piecesIt had to be able to do this much faster than the existing human computers then used for these tasks. However ENIAC was not operational until after the end of the war.
There was only one ENIAC, it was decided never to attempt to build another machine of such limited capability and difficulty of programming ever again. It was designed by J. Presper Ekert, John Machly, and about half a dozen other engineers for specific subsystems.
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