FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -The construction contract was signed on June 5, 1943; work on the computer began in secret at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering the following month, under the code name “Project PX", with John Grist Brainerd as principal investigator. Herman H.

Detailed explanation-2: -The result was ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), built between 1943 and 1945-the first large-scale computer to run at electronic speed without being slowed by any mechanical parts.

Detailed explanation-3: -The ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could churn 5, 000 addition problems in one second, far faster than any device yet invented. In February 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were about to unveil, for the first time, an electronic computer to the world.