1946 ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computing

[jarkanciofan]

Z3 D:

[Toffer161]

But can it run tetris?

[LaTekapo]

i have to say: computer is an amazing gift which god donate us!we must be thankful

[Theatomicashik]

can you please again tell the full form of ENIAC i think it is "ELECTRONIC NUMERICAL INTEGRATOR AND CALCULATOR" you told "COMPUTER"

[teedot]

For those of you who don't know, Cysis is a game. A very bad one at that...

[Starfighterking]

I love Eniac. Very important thing! By the way, the first Hard Drive was IBM 305 RAMAC, also great thing! :-)

[ScorchinBeats]

*Opens Crysis*

"Sorry, but in order to play Crysis you must have a transistor based cpu, a hard drive, and a monitor"

[gianluigixxxx]

who wrote the script for this man, wrote crap

[oc5nsli341nforce4]

@serialkissersband

Yes except they run very very hot due to the filaments like that in a light bulb. It osculates current and can do switching effects like a transistor however often had reliability issues. They were originally put to use in radios and other electrical equipment. Later to find their use in early TVs and still to this day audio equipment. Today they are a niche due to clarity of tone in high end audio sound systems. AMPS

[erroneousapostrophe]

Including all of the data the Colossus computers processed? Methinks not. 

[Starfighterking]

Colossus was COMPLETE electronic (!), and was fully programmable, also ENIAC, Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine, Modified ENIAC, EDSAC, Manchester Mark 1 and finaly CSIRAC, and some had even memory! This all Computers was the realy first Computers!

[fxcat123]

how many gigs of ram?

[polbecca]

@fxcat123 ENIAC didn't have any RAM as we know it. It could store 20 10-digit numbers at once, built into the accumulator modules, and it was later upgraded with proper core memory that could store a whopping 100 10-digit numbers. So in modern terrms, about 0.00000112 GB of memory. That much core memory back then cost as much as a house.

[Wolf9656]

@polbecca "as much as a house" bullshit! - back in the early 80s, 10 mb costed 10 000$ so in that days, the memory costed like 10000000$

[polbecca]

@Wolf9656 Commercially available magnetic core memory started off at around $1 per bit, and a ten digit number requires 34 bits. $3400, give or take, was an entire year's salary back then. A small house, or two big cars, was that sort of money; a five bed place would've run you upwards of $10,000. It's probably also reasonable to assume that core memory, for which ENIAC was a very early adopter, was somewhat more expensive than that at first.

[Wolf9656]

@polbecca yeah and if you read polbecca`s comment, it could store 20 digit numbers! 20*3400 is 68000 - and a bit was way more expensive back then - so you could buy a fucking mansion back than with the money and not just a little house!

[disbuylshite]

... But can it play Crysis?

[teedot]

@disbuylshite You silly kids with the Crysis jokes are getting really tiresome. You all know the answer, why act silly?

[michaelboett173]

where is the screen?

[ijunkie]

Kind of a spurious claim there at the end.

[francescopirovano]

WOW!!! This is history...

[Papiertig0r]

the question is not "can it run crysis" but more "how much of them do you need to actually run crysis?"

[darkgreensoldier666]

Even a huge amount of those could never run crysis because it build on wire your own ...

so forget it!!

[Jm4steam]

I did a project on this in high school. Many years ago now. Very interesting.

[avto91]

One day Eniac stoped working people couldt figure out the why that happend ,after they looked on the back side of eniac they saw many bugs between eniac and a wall that and then they started to kill bugs they called it debug so thats why now on every computer has a debugger app inside the os sorry for my english but i think u get what i meat:D

[talkissos]

hmm wonder wats the fps on this baby if i run wow on max settings

[I69yomom]

@talkissos Rofl,negative 200?

[DT170x]

Why people make stupid remarks about "can it run Crysis". If I see those comments I will put -1 on your posts.

[deadsoftware]

Enjy BASIC :D

[EgaoNoGenki]

"Will it run Crysis?"

[baneskrbic]

I wanna play GTA4!My PC is old!

[Olli120]

I would like to put it together again and boot it up.

[clydesight]

Gosh, can it do Photoshop?

[GamingBlitzDOTcom]

i wonder if it could run pong, Killzone 2 or Crysis? jk

[keyonte0]

I doubt this is The first digital computer. there must have been at least a dozen prototypes.

[trewlert44]

Electronics and computing theory was just far enough along. Wartime money and needs drove it from there. Wikipedia says it was the first 'unambiguously Turing complete' computer.

[FrontalTraction]

Now you get faster computers on those crap video games in some happy meals.

[trewlert44]

Its number registers were made up of decimal digits, needed many more tubes than an equivalent rendering with binary digits. The very first digital computer & some basic concepts were not clear to the designers.

[Claire1Rogers]

Thats becuz the modern concept of a 'bit' and digital information theory was proposed by Shannon in 1947, in his landmark paper, A Mathematical Theory of Communication

[Lowbudget2]

Imagine if they made a computer that big now using the microelectronics we have today...

[Amishman35]

I heard somewhere that the CPU speed was 4 kilohertz or .000004 GHz.

[gerodinis]

There were no CPUs back then, Amishman35. Nor were they until 1972. Before that, computers used arrays of logical circuits, looking like the today's expansion cards we have at home computers.

[MarbleMind]

I think you're confusing something there, gerodinis. A CPU doesn't have to be an integrated circuit, aka microprocessor. It's just the core unit of a computer setup, hence the term "Central Processing Unit". With many early mainframes, the CPU was a closet-sized stand-alone device, forming the actual "computer" together with the console, tape decks, HDDs, card punches and the power supply. Those usually weren't considered peripherals, because you couldn't operate the main unit without them.

[hendosia]

its the professor from halflife

[lunken86]

DR. KLEINER ZOMGORZ

[WMachinima]

PLAY CRYSIS ON IT!!

[Vyggy]

don't you ever think about anything else than playing crysis on old computers? that joke is getting old, its not funny.

[doomsayer333]

why? I haven't heard about that joke yet, but when I first saw this computer I tought about playing Crysis on it =D

[jessexbraughton]

@Vyggy Can i run crysis on your face?

[BoomBoy13]

@Vyggy heh, I wonder if this thing can play crysis

[DevSodDribble]

@Vyggy What the hell is 'crysis'??



[phadil]

@Vyggy Fine, let's play Skyrim then.

[pepietheman]

i been using eniac as name online for over 5 years :) as a tribute

[johnaast]

To think, a computer the size of an apartment block in 1946 can now fit within your ipod shuffle - something so insanely small you lose it! Id rather have the apartment block! Wouldnt loose it soo easily! =(

[natman340]

@johnaast Whats even more amazing is you could have fit the entire ENIAC inside something the size of a shuffle using transistors the size of then ones in intel's first microprocessor.

[fortifythamind]

@johnaast couldnt get stolen either!

[Dirtfire]

And today's desktop PCs are probably more than 20million times faster.

[tempetiger]

I have a Popular science magazine from about 1946 that did an article on that machine! Back then, it was the latest thing in computers. Today, I could probable do more with my TI calculator than that thing could!

[Dirtfire]

That magazine could probably fetch a lot on ebay today.

[admiraldaro]

that is incredible!

[dancingnature]

wow