• gramie@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    Strange to refer to it as a supercomputer, when as far as I know, it was the only computer in existence, or one of very few.

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    16 hours ago

    The ENIAC was composed of 40 panels and contained 17,468 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors and around 5 million hand-soldered joints. It weighed more than 27 tons, took up 1800 square feet, and consumed 150 kW of power. It operated until 1957

    How much RAM did the ENIAC have? ENIAC, the first stored-program computer, built in 1945–1946, had 20 accumulator registers, each storing a 10-digit decimal number.

    ENIAC was able to process about 500 FLOPS

    most high quality cellphones have about 2 trillion flops of power on the processor

  • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    Flies and moths sometimes got behind panels and caused issues. Hence computer bugs entered our lexicon.

    It’s easier to imagine the insects entering with this picture,