Electronic Computer

In the early 1940’s the electronic computer came into being with the mechanical relays replaced by vacuum tubes. These were, however, single purpose computer designed to aid in the war effort.

 The first general-purpose electronic computer was ENIAC(Electronic Numeric Integrator and Calculation) that was put into operation at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946-a 30-ton machine that contained over 17,000 vacuum tubes and performed 100,000 operations per ..Read more