The birth of a giant
Inside the beast
The brilliant minds
The legacy of ENIAC
007skaty ENIAC mimicked mechanical adding machines by using ring counters and ten vacuum tubes per digit to calculate decimal numbers.
How many digits were in the standard 'decimal words' that the ENIAC used for calculations?
Which numerical system did the ENIAC computer use to perform its mathematical calculations?
007skaty This manual rewiring process kept the computer offline for days between tasks.
Philadelphia power myth: Rumors claimed that whenever ENIAC was turned on, all the streetlights in Philadelphia dimmed, though this was actually a myth.
007skaty Technicians worked daily to replace burned-out vacuum tubes inside the ENIAC.
007skaty Tinker with glowing vacuum tubes to learn how the Aniac computer processed data.
How often did technicians typically have to replace burned-out vacuum tubes in the ENIAC?
Why did engineers decide to keep the ENIAC computer running continuously without turning it off?
An electron tube containing a near-vacuum that allows the free passage of electric current. In 1945, the ENIAC computer utilized over 17,000 of these devices to perform complex ballistic calculations.
Approximately how much electrical power did the ENIAC computer consume during operation?