ENIAC

«Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons. »

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As Pierce notes, the immediately surprising thing about ENIAC is its physicality.

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The ENIAC was the first electronic digital computer and could add those two 10-digit numbers in 0.0002 seconds -- that's 50,000 times faster than a human, 20,000 times faster than a calculator and 1,500 times faster than the Mark 1.

The Speculist: Abandoning Babbage 2006

Joining forces with the team at Philadelphias Moore School of Electrical Engineering working on the first electronic computer, known as ENIAC, von Neumann soon took the project in a different direction.

The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

Joining forces with the team at Philadelphias Moore School of Electrical Engineering working on the first electronic computer, known as ENIAC, von Neumann soon took the project in a different direction.

The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

The ENIAC was the first electronic digital computer and could add those two 10-digit numbers in 0.0002 seconds -- that's 50,000 times faster than a human, 20,000 times faster than a calculator and 1,500 times faster than the Mark 1.

The Speculist: February 2006 Archives 2006

DAVID ALLISON, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY: Lou, the computer industry that we know today began in America in 1946 with a machine called the ENIAC, electronic numerical integrator and computer, that was built during World War II.

CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Gadgets - January 1, 2000 2000

I believe it's called the ENIAC, or The EMAC, one giant computer that took a bunch of power lol. .ya that's all I got. .sorry.

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The company already has raised $1 million from investors including Spark Capital, Betaworks and ENIAC Ventures, allowing it to hire some world-class engineers.

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But take a moment to look back at the "state of the art" electronics available before the manned space program took root, computers that were bigger than most homes (ENIAC) and look at the computers as we landed on the Moon.

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