Monday, May 05, 2008

ENIAC - who invented the first modern computer?

Read here about the world first electronic computer :)

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When finished in the fall of 1945 at a cost of about $487,000, the computer was made up of 17,458 vacuum tubes and could calculate an artillery shell's trajectory in 30 seconds -- far faster than the 20 hours required by the women, the original "computers," who had performed the task during the war.
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Cool stuff if you consider the computing power of your mobile phone :D

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