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Mostly by considering what components were already available and making tradeoff analyses as to which of the available components that could do the job were best suited to their needs.

For example when Howard Aiken designed the Harvard Mark I and Mark II computers he considered both vacuum tubes and electromechanical devices (e.g. relays, clutches, odometer counters), but rejected tubes as likely to be too unreliable for the large number needed. He was satisfied with a slow but reliable machine.

When Eckert and Mauchly designed the ENIAC they rejected electromechanical devices outright without any tradeoffs as too slow. They insisted on a high speed machine and chose to cope with reliability issues as they arose.

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