Questions tagged [eniac]
For questions regarding the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) machine created in 1946.
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ENIAC stands for Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator; what made it particularly suitable for numerical integration?
The acronym ENIAC stands for Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator.
The fact that it was simpy a numerical computer means it probably could be used to perform numerical integration in some ...
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Did any computers use automatically-operated mechanical storage as electronically-read-addressable memory
From what I understand of ENIAC, it had a very large number of manually-operated rotary switches which behaved as ROM. While programming ENIAC in the early days required a plugboard, the machine was ...
