🔒 Closed The First Computer ever (ENIAC)

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The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) made history as the first computer in the world (which was electronic programmable).
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Development of the computer completed in 1945, and the computer entered service in December of that year.

ENIAC could displace the computational power of 2,400 human beings at a cost of $500,000.

ENIC relied on octal-base radio tubes to function. However, these tubes constantly burned out on a daily basis and required replacement.

This means that ENIAC ran about 50% of the time and experienced downtime for tube replacements otherwise.

More specialized and durable tubes eventually became available, leading to failures every one to two days.
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