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COMPUTING DEVICES: 20TH CENTURY TO DATE
CONTENT
- Features, Components and Uses of ENIAC
- Features, Components and Uses of EDVAC
- Features, Components and Uses of UNIVAC 1
- Features, Components and Uses of Desktop Personal Computer
- Features, Components and Uses of Laptop and Notebook Computers
- Features, Components and Uses of Palmtop Computers
Features, Components and Uses of ENIAC
Introduction
The twentieth century computers are mechanical and electro-mechanical devices that possesses input unit, memory unit, processing etc. and can as well perform automatic operations. Among the early computing device the twentieth century are Mark1, ENIAC, EDVAC, UNIVAC and Von Newman machine etc.
Features, Components and Uses of ENIAC
ENIAC, in full Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, built during World War II by the United States. In the United States, government funding during the war went to a project led by John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, Jr., and their colleagues at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania; their objective was an all-electronic computer.
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