The History of Computers (1946-1992)

The first electronic digital computer was called ENIAC (Electronic Numerator Integrator Analyzer and Computer), and was invented at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. Its was constructed for military purposes. Weighing around 27 tons and was the size of a room (was about 9m by 17m). The ENIAC made loud noises, it crackled and buzzed when it was performing an equation, it also let out an incredible amount of heat since it had 17,000 vacuum tubes. Before this …showed first 75 words of 1480 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1480 total…who owned these machines. They were not used like these days, not exactly for typing papers, instead they were used to run programs and test equipment. Another thing that was a big change were the number of wires and components. Now there are no more than 10 wires for a basic computer, at the beginning of the computer era, there were over a 100 wires, and they could not nearly do as much as they can now.