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Marlyn Wescoff (standing) and Ruth Lichterman reprogram the ENIAC supercomputer, USA, 1946 (lemmy.world)
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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The ENIAC was composed of 40 panels and contained 17,468 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors and around 5 million hand-soldered joints. It weighed more than 27 tons, took up 1800 square feet, and consumed 150 kW of power. It operated until 1957

How much RAM did the ENIAC have? ENIAC, the first stored-program computer, built in 1945–1946, had 20 accumulator registers, each storing a 10-digit decimal number.

ENIAC was able to process about 500 FLOPS

most high quality cellphones have about 2 trillion flops of power on the processor

[–] dorumon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Shivering at the thought smartphones have more power then all my computers now.