COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

Detailed explanation-1: -ENIAC was completed in 1945 and first put to work for practical purposes on December 10, 1945. ENIAC was formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania on February 15, 1946, having cost $487, 000 (equivalent to $6, 200, 000 in 2021), and called a “Giant Brain” by the press.

Detailed explanation-2: -Celebrating Penn Engineering History: ENIAC. Originally announced on February 14, 1946, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), was the first general-purpose electronic computer.

Detailed explanation-3: -World’s first electronic digital computer John Vincent Atanasoff, a former Iowa State professor of physics and mathematics, and Clifford Berry, a former physics graduate student and electrical engineering undergraduate, built the computer at Iowa State University from 1937 to 1942.

Detailed explanation-4: -On June 14, 1951, Remington Rand delivered its first computer, UNIVAC I, to the U.S. Census Bureau. It weighed 16, 000 pounds, used 5, 000 vacuum tubes, and could perform about 1, 000 calculations per second.