Question

What is the full form of the first Electronic Computer ENIAC?

• A. Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator
• B. Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
• C. Electrical Numerical Integrated Computer
• D. Electro Numeric Integrity Computer

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer

• ENIAC is an acronym for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.

• It was the world's first programmable, electronic, general-purpose computer.

• It was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert to calculate artillery firing tables for the US Army during World War II.

• ENIAC was completed in 1945. It could perform calculations much faster than other computers of the time.

• It contained approximately 17,468 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors, and 10,000 capacitors.

• It took up a large room and weighed about 30 tons.