The
ENIAC in Action
Ladies and Gentlemen, the ENIAC!
The main parts on display are:
- Cycling Unit
- Master Programmer Unit
- Function Table
- Accumulator
- Digit Trays
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Other parts of the original ENIAC were:
- Punch Card Reader
- Card Puncher
- Card Printer
- Division Unit
- Square-root Unit
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After construction, the ENIAC was shipped to the Aberdeen
Proving Ground in Aberdeen MD. There, it produced
firing
tables.
In addition to ballistics, the ENIAC's field of application
included weather prediction, atomic-energy calculations,
cosmic-ray studies, thermal ignition, random-number
studies, wind-tunnel design, and other scientific uses.
It is recalled that no electronic computers were being
applied to commercial problems until about 1951.
With the ability to perform math at blinding speed,
the ENIAC gave scientists a tool unlike any calculator
that had come before. The increase in speed (and the
decrease in cost) are explored in the next section,
Speed and Money.
Speed and Money
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The ENIAC
in Action