March 03, 2015

ENIAC - First General Purpose Electronic Computer

ENIAC - First General Purpose Electronic Computer

In 1946, John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert developed the ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator).

 John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert

It weighed more than 30 tons, covered 1800 square feet (167 Sqare Meter) of floor space, and consumed 150 kilowatts of electric power. The ENIAC contained  about 18,000 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors, 7,200 crystal diodes, 10,000 capacitors, 1,500 relays and around 5 million hand-soldered joints.

ENIAC - First General Purpose Electronic Computer

ENIAC - First General Purpose Electronic Computer

ENIAC - First General Purpose Electronic Computer

IBM's launch of the Personal Computer (IBM 5150) in 1981 set the industry standard for personal computing. It's weight was less 3,000 times and speed 400 times greater than ENIAC.

IBM's launch of the Personal Computer (IBM 5150)

More detail about ENIAC :
ENIAC Wikipedia
The History of the ENIAC Computer

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