COMPUTING DEVICES II
Computer Science SSS1 First Term
COMPUTING DEVICES II
Week 6 & 7
Performance Objective
The student should be able to:
- Feature, and components and uses
Content:
ENIAC
In 1946, John Muchly and J. Presper Eckert completed the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer). It was the first general-purpose computer. ENIAC contained 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighed 30 tons, occupied 1800 square feet of floor space and required 160 kilowatts of electrical power. The ENIAC used the punched card for input and output. ENIAC was used by the US for hydrogen bomb project and programming.
EDVAC
Features and Components
The EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) is the successor of the ENIAC and was made by the same designers: John Mauchly and Presper Eckert in 1949.
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