First general-purpose electronic computer

According to Official Guinness Records,

ENIAC, Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was completed in 1946 and was designed to computer firing tables for the US Army’s artillery. It weighed 27 tonnes, measured 2.6 x 0.9 x 24 m, used 150 kilowatts of power, and contained 10,000 capacitors, 17,468 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes and 70,000 resistors. It was the first general-purpose electronic computer.

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Content last updated on 2018-11-27