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ENIAC The Birth of the Information Age
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ENIAC The Birth of the Information Age
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In 1946, a group of scientists and engineers at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering quietly began a revolutionary way of managing information. They called it the ENIAC. It began the modern computer industry and would eventually transform people's lives to a degree that even its inventors could not have imagined. |
Use the links below to answer the following questions.
People and Discoveries - The ENIAC
Questions:
What was the ENIAC?
What does ENIAC stand for?
How large was the ENIAC?
How much did the ENIAC cost to build?
For what purpose was the ENIAC built?
The ENIAC contained more than 17,000 of these.
Why was the ENIAC so large?
Photos and Other Cool Stuff
A rare photo of the back of the ENIAC
The Virtual Museum of Computing
The ENIAC Project - Created April 2001, Revised June 24, 2003 http://www.ahsd.org/Middle/teachers/Gwyn/ENIAC.htm , gwynd@ahsd.org