MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Detailed explanation-1: -ENIAC, in full Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, built during World War II by the United States. American physicist John Mauchly, American engineer J.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, ENIAC was the fastest computational device of its time, able to do 5, 000 additions per second, but because it had no internal storage, it had to be programmed manually for each new set of calculations.