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| | ENIAC - MSN Encarta |
 | | ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), the first large-scale, general purpose, digital computer. | | | ENIAC used decimal arithmetic in its operations rather than the binary arithmetic common in today’s computers (see Number Systems). | | | Their system used the binary arithmetic system of 1s and 0s commonly used in today’s computers as well as a memory drum that stored data in a method similar to the storage technique used in modern memory chips. |
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| | Electronic Computers Within The Ordnance Corps, ENIAC |
| | The ENIAC was not originally designed as an internally-programmed computer. | | | ENIAC led the computer field through 1952 when it served as the main computation machine for the solution of the scientific problems of the nation. | | | In applying the ENIAC to a particular computation it was first necessary to break down the work into a number of basic computing sequences, the ordering of which was controlled by the master programmer. |
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http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist/61ordnance/chap2.html
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| | History of Computing Science: ENIAC |
| | ENIAC is generally acknowledged to be the first successful high-speed electronic digital computer (EDC) and was productively used from 1946 to 1955. | | | ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator and Computer) used a word of 10 decimal digits instead of binary ones like previous automated calculators/computers. | | | The executable instructions composing a program were embodied in the separate units of ENIAC, which were plugged together to form a route through the machine for the flow of computations. |
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| | ENIAC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was the first large-scale, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems | | | ENIAC's registers performed decimal, rather than binary arithmetic like the Z3 or the Atanasoff-Berry Computer. | | | A number of improvements were also made to ENIAC from 1948, including a primitive read-only stored programming mechanism [3] using the Function Tables as program ROM, an idea proposed by John von Neumann. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
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| | ENIAC - EnchantedLearning.com |
| | ENIAC stands for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer." It was one of the first all-purpose, all-electronic digital computers. | | | ENIAC could not store programming information; it could run only one wired-in program at a time - to run a different program, the machine had to be re-wired. | | | This early computer could add about 5,000 numbers each second (which was astounding at the time). |
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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/page/e/ENIAC.shtml
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| | Eniac Past and Present |
| | First, the Eniac was the first digital computer to perform computation at truly electronic speeds. | | | Still, the Eniac was the first electronic, general-purpose digital computer. | | | Still, for many people, the Eniac represents the first modern computer, and the computer that established the postwar computer industry. |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~natpoor/eniac/eniachist.html
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| | CNN - First computer turns 50 - Feb. 14, 1996 |
| | The room in which ENIAC got its start now houses a state-of-the-art computer graphics lab where a computer-generated look at ENIAC is another reminder of the legacy left by the world's first electronic, general purpose computer. | | | But ENIAC had no real memory and couldn't handle most of the computing functions expected of today's personal computers. | | | The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer known as ENIAC was 100 feet long, 10 feet high and weighed 30 tons. |
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http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9602/eniac
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| | ENIAC |
| | ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. | | | ENIAC, the mammoth machine credited with helping to start the computer age, fueled the public's imagination about how science and computers could revolutionize the world. | | | Little did they realize how different that early computer was from the ones that would be built a mere fifty years later. |
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http://www.pbs.org/transistor/science/events/eniac.html
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| | Programming the ENIAC |
| | Later, ENIAC's plugboards were permanently "microprogrammed" with a repertoire of 50-100 commonly used instructions that could be referenced from a "user program" entered as a sequence of instructions into the function-table switches. | | | One of the peculiarities that distinguished ENIAC from all later computers was the way in which instructions were set up on the machine. | | | Since ENIAC was a war project (as was the Aberdeen Relay Calculator, with which Eckert was also ostensibly involved) it would not be surprising that records are not available. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/eniac.html
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| | ENIAC, PENNSYLVANIA EVENTS |
| | On February 1, 1946, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was unveiled. | | | But ENIAC was a great leap forward, its electronic design encompassing nearly everything used today, and it is the prototype from which other computers have evolved. | | | The war was sover before the machine was operational, but the computer was a stunning success. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4547/eniac.html
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| | Historical Sketch, ENIAC Trial Exhibits Guide |
| | By end of 1945 the electronic computer developed at the Moore School, known as the ENIAC was operational. | | | The catalyst that advanced electrical engineering and the computer beyond the differential analyzer and to the ENIAC was the demands of the army during the 1930's and particularly the Second World War. | | | There are two epochs in the history of computing: before the completion of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (known as the ENIAC), and after. |
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http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upd/eniactrial/eniac4.html
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| | ENIAC Computer History - Invention of the ENIAC Computer |
| | ENIAC was completed in 1945 and is regarded as the first successful, general digital computer. | | | ENIAC's 55th birthday with the premiere of a new documentary feature on the invention of ENIAC entitled Mauchly: The Computer and the Skateboard. | | | ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer. |
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http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/story072.htm
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| | Mainframe History |
| | In 1946, The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), under the direction of J.P. Eckert and John Mauchly of the University of Pennsylvania, was unvailed as the first digital computer. | | | However, the Mark I was soon to be outpaced by the new Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) Picture. | | | This new creation was a computer that could compute a thousound times faster than any previous machine. |
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http://www.brainerd.net/~kuck/history/mainfram.html
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| | The Women of ENIAC |
| | Their significant contribution to "the machine that changed the world" should not be overlooked as a triviality of wartime; rather it should be viewed as a triumph for these female pioneers in the field of computer science. | | | The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was developed during World War II to compute tactical trajectories that required substantial mathematical skills. | | | Presper Eckert, successfully built and tested the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, once described as "the machine that changed the world". |
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| | ENIAC |
| | Note: Technically, ENIAC was not the first electronic computer. | | | Although it is evident that Eckert and Mauchly first thought of the idea of actually storing the program in the computer's memory (rather than forming the program by rewiring), the concept of storing both data and program code in the memory of the computer has been labeled a von Neumann machine. | | | And yet the ENIAC contained less computing power than the throw-away chips one finds inside greeting cards that play music. |
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http://www.calvin.edu/academic/rit/webBook/chapter2/history/eniacImage.htm
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| | Reckoners Chapter 5 |
| | The ENIAC was an electronic computer: it was the only early computer except for the British Colossus that computed at electronic speeds. | | | For the ENIAC, that wiring was literally done by plugboards (and setting switches); computers programmed by paper tapes do the same thing, only the rewiring is abstracted by one level: the code on the tape represents the internal rewiring of the computer in such a way as to solve a given problem. | | | But if there is a "granddaddy" of all the generations of digital computers, it would have to be the ENIAC, the first working electronic numeric digital computer. |
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http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/Reckoners-ch-5.html
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| | The ENIAC |
| | These were later manifested in the successor to the ENIAC, the Electronic Discrete Variable Computer, or EDVAC. | | | As computer technology advanced, the ENIAC itself became obsolete. | | | The function tables were used in the programming of the ENIAC. |
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| | ENIAC: A computer is born CNET News.com |
| | Until it was immobilized by lightning in 1955, ENIAC performed computational problems relating to the development of the hydrogen bomb and other military projects. | | | Their ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could churn 5,000 addition problems in one second, far faster than any device yet invented. | | | Dynamic, flashy lights would thereafter be associated with the computer in the public mind. |
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http://news.com.com/2009-1006-6037980.html
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| | Eniac-on-a-Chip Project |
| | John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer" | | | Master Programmer: A higher level arithmetic coordinator that allows the ENIAC to be programmed in a more sophisticated way. | | | The design of the full chip has been finalized and consists of the whole of the ENIAC, namely, 20 accumulators, the cycling and initiation units, master programmer, the high speed multiplier, divider, square rooter, constant transmitter, and function tables. |
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| | ENIAC simulation: index |
| | The ENIAC was the first electronic digital universal computer built at Pennsylvania University in 1944-1946. | | | The ENIAC simulation is a Java-Applet simulating the ENIAC with a 2d graphical interface, implemented 2003/2004 at Free University of Berlin. | | | The first version of the ENIAC simulation is working. |
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| | BCP's Photo Gallery |
| | The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was among the very first computers—some say it was the first, though there are competing claims. | | | For someone who came of age in the second half of the computer revolution, the immediately surprising thing about ENIAC is its physicality. | | | Looking back from today, with every facet of society permeated by super-fast, ultra-miniaturized, all-but-invisible computers, the ENIAC seems ludicrously clunky and primitive. |
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| | Chilling Tales from Radio's Past |
| | ENIAC led to a whole slew of experimental,electronic computers with names ending in -AC. | | | It was a transition from calculating machine to computer, as it could not store instructions internally. | | | Your calculator/ calendar/ alarm/ thermometer/ phone book watch demonstrates how far computing has come in half a century, but one might also consider the ENIAC-On-A-Chip Project. |
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| | ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer |
| | Perhaps the biggest step in determining who created the first computer is in defining what a computer is. Depending on that definition, a host of possible firsts can be crowned. | | | The EDVAC was the next version of the ENIAC which Eckert and Mauchly also created. | | | It was done by changing hardware connections and rewiring rather than relying purely on software, but it was still a quantum leap forward from what the other proto-computers of the day could do. |
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| | Technorati Tag: ENIAC |
| | The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was among... | | | From an article on CNET about the birth of ENIAC, the first modern computer: In February 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were about to... | | | Pretty photos of one of the first computers in the world - ENIAC. |
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| | The first general-purpose electronic computer -- ENIAC |
| | For example, one of the main problems with ENIAC was that it was hard-wired; that is, it did not have any internal memory as such, but needed to be physically programmed by means of switches and dials. | | | ignore Atanasoff's machine and COLOSSUS, then the first true general-purpose electronic computer was the electronic numerical integrator and computer (ENIAC), which was constructed at the University of Pennsylvania between 1943 and 1946. | | | course of developing ENIAC, Mauchly and Eckert recognized a variety of improvements and new techniques, which they determined to use in any subsequent machines. |
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| | The ENIAC Museum Online |
| | To celebrate ENIACs birthday, we have provided an opportunity for you to use the ENIAC simulator online by visiting http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~zoppke/D, or here to read the abstract on the workings of the ENIAC simulator. | | | This year marks 60 years since ENIAC launched the world into the Computing Age. | | | There were three existing technologies that led to the development of ENIAC. |
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| | Grand Text Auto » Secrets of ENIAC |
| | Yesterday I went to the opening reception for Secrets of ENIAC, photographs by Benjamin Pierce, a professor of computer and information science here at Penn. The photographs are extreme close-ups, details of macros, showing a strange industrial landscape within the vacuum tubes of this early computer. | | | The history of computing, and how to assign credit for general-purpose computing, is complex, but ENIAC was the first machine to be able to do a conditional branch (an if statement). | | | As part of Penn& Women in Computing Series, I went to a special event today with Jean Bartik and Kay Mauchly Antonelli, who programmed the ENIAC about 60 years ago, and Kathryn Kleiman, who made a short documentary about the ENIAC programmers, The Computers: The Untold Story of the Remarkable Women who Programmed the ENIAC. |
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| | ENIAC Facts: Scott McCartney |
| | Grist Brainerd submitted a report on ENIAC to the Applied Mathematics Panel at the Moore School, and although he understood little of the science, he was credited with the parentage of the first computer? | | | the invention of ENIAC opened up computer technology to all generations that have followed ever since? | | | RCA had a chance to be involved with constructing the first computer but declined to do so? |
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| | Slashdot ENIAC, the forgotten story |
| | In thirty seconds, ENIAC could calculate a trajectory, something that would require twenty hours with a desk calculator, or fifteen minutes on the machine then called the Differential Analyzer. | | | It was 1,000 times faster than any numerical calculator, 500 times faster than any existing computing machine. | | | ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of The World's First Computer |
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| | Nat's Eniac Page |
| | Arthur Burks is now an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Computer Science (which he helped found, although he also taught philosophy) here at the University of Michigan, and Alice is a computer historian and former researcher. | | | I am a little busy right now, and they're larger than should be, so ethernet-speed would be better than modem (sorry, it's not that high a priority). | | | They co-authored an article in the Spring 1997 Michigan Quarterly Review, arguing that our good friend the Eniac was not actually the first electric computer. |
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| | Two of Atanasoff's best ideas, the use of binary math and Boolean logic, unfortunately would wait for future machines and their absence made ENIAC unnecessarily complicated. | | | It did help detect design flaws in the design of the Hydrogen bomb, but mainly it initiated the computer industry. | | | ENIAC was to retain Atanasoff's idea of vacuum tubes as switches and the synchronizing of internal operations with an electronic timer. |
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| | Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator - ENIAC |
| | Short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator, ENIAC began construction in 1943 and was Completed in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania and occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons. | | | The ENIAC is now being displayed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. Also see: Computer History page, CSIRAC | | | While not completed until the end of the war, the ENIAC was created to help with the war efforts against German forces. |
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| | One of the major challenges of coming years also lies in technology and the fast growing electronic business economy which is already impacting development strategies,company organisation,customer and employee relations.Fast track technology provides the opportunity to implement exciting new systems, but the implications are far-reaching,choices are tricky and errors costly. | | | Our I.T. Systems are open and flexible,supporting databases,applications,operaing systems,and hardware platform from almost every major vendor. | | | E.R.P. ENIAC is the most experienced integrator of E.R.P. Systems in Greece. |
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| | Welcome to Eniac |
| | Homann implements IT- strategie with ENIAC (May 01, 2006) | | | © 2005 Eniac B.V. Powered by IBM technology | | | ZEEMAN: We see possibilities for Lotus Workplace (May 01, 2006) |
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