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Computers - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The first electronic computers, such as the ENIAC (announced in 1946), were huge devices that weighed tons, occupied entire rooms, and required many operators to function successfully. |
 | | The modern, digital, electronic, general-purpose computer was developed, by many contributors, over an extended period from the mid 1930s to the late 1940s, during this period many experimental machines were built that were possibly Turing-complete (ABC, ENIAC, Harvard Mk I, Colossus etc see the History of computing hardware). |
 | | The ENIAC was originally designed to calculate ballistics firing tables for artillery, but it was also used to calculate neutron cross-sectional densities to help in the design of the hydrogen bomb. |
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