COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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If you were one of the first people to operate ENIAC, what information would you likely have computed?
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Planetary movements
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Bombing targets
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Stock prices
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Census data
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Data (numbers) were to be entered on punched cards, using the card-reading technology of the Jacquard loom. Instructions were also to be entered on cards, another idea taken directly from Joseph-Marie Jacquard.
Detailed explanation-2: -Built between 1943-1945 at the University of Pennsylvania by engineers John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, ENIAC was created to calculate artillery tables-the projectile trajectories of explosive shells-for the US Army Ballistics Research Laboratory.
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