The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was the world's first general-purpose electronic computer and was introduced in 1946:
Design: The ENIAC was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania.
Funding: The U.S. Army funded the project as part of World War II.
Speed: The ENIAC was the fastest computational device of its time, able to perform 5,000 additions per second.
Size: The ENIAC occupied about 1,800 square feet and weighed over 30 tons.
Components: The ENIAC contained almost 20,000 vacuum tubes, 1,500 relays, 10,000 capacitors, and 70,000 resistors.
Programming: The ENIAC had no internal storage, so it had to be programmed manually for each new set of calculations.
Location: The ENIAC was originally located at the University of Pennsylvania, but was moved to the Ballistics Research Laboratory of the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Mary
land in 1947.
Design: The ENIAC was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania.
Funding: The U.S. Army funded the project as part of World War II.
Speed: The ENIAC was the fastest computational device of its time, able to perform 5,000 additions per second.
Size: The ENIAC occupied about 1,800 square feet and weighed over 30 tons.
Components: The ENIAC contained almost 20,000 vacuum tubes, 1,500 relays, 10,000 capacitors, and 70,000 resistors.
Programming: The ENIAC had no internal storage, so it had to be programmed manually for each new set of calculations.
Location: The ENIAC was originally located at the University of Pennsylvania, but was moved to the Ballistics Research Laboratory of the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Mary
land in 1947.
