BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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perform business calculations for large companies
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provide speech recognition to spy on enemies
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monitor and assist with the production of tanks
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calculate firing tables for artillery
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Detailed explanation-1: -ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the world’s first general-purpose computer. ENIAC was designed and built for the United States Army to calculate artillery firing tables.
Detailed explanation-2: -The world’s first electronic digital computer was developed by Army Ordnance to compute World War II ballistic firing tables.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although ENIAC was designed and primarily used to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army’s Ballistic Research Laboratory (which later became a part of the Army Research Laboratory), its first program was a study of the feasibility of the thermonuclear weapon.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) was the very first general-purpose electronic computer. It was designed primarily to calculate artillery firing tables to be used by the United States Army’s Ballistic Research Laboratory to help US troops during World War II.
Detailed explanation-5: -Completed by February 1946, ENIAC had cost the government $400, 000, and the war it was designed to help win was over. Its first task was doing calculations for the construction of a hydrogen bomb. A portion of the machine is on exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.