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Tuesday, July 15, 2025
This post is a collection of quotes about ENIAC (completed in 1945). There are 3 quotes listed below. License: CC BY-SA 4.0
1. "...first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer..." (Wikipedia: ENIAC, 6.26.25 UTC 12: 50)
2. "... a large collection of arithmetic machines, which originally had programs set up into the machine by a combination of plugboard wiring and three portable function tables (containing 1,200 ten-way switches each)." (Wikipedia: ENIAC, 6.26.25 UTC 12: 50)
3. "...contained 18,000 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, and approximately 5,000,000 hand-soldered joints... roughly 8 feet tall, 3 feet deep and 100 feet long..." (Wikipedia: ENIAC, 6.26.25 UTC 12: 50)