We all have powerful devices with us which can compute millions of instructions per second but how many of us remember the boring lesson delivered about history of computers.
With the Throwback Thursday, I’ll take you through the invention which helped to ease our lives so much, that we can’t even imagine our lives without it now.
World’s first computer – ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.
The need for a device powerful enough to computer large data arose by 1880 when the population of United States had grown so large that it took more than seven years to tabulate the U.S Census results.
After this incident, world has seen multiple multiple mechanical devices capable of computing data, but the first digital computer was introduced to the world on the day of love( Feb 14 ) in the year 1946.
ENIAC was developed by the University of Pennsylvania’s John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert under a contract with the US Army, to speed up ballistics calculations.
ENIAC was built 30ft. by 60ft. weighing 30 tons and using 19,000 vacuum tubes.
A significant part of ENIAC’s history is that 6 women who programmed it ( true feminism warning).
ENIAC’s legacy was carried by UNIVAC computer which operated at a clock frequency of 2.25MHz, outracing ENIAC forever.
Getting through it. TechX 
Had this been taught like this, i might have studied engineering further :p
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Then we wouldn’t be getting those awesome videos 😆
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