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Eniac at 75

27 点作者 the-mitr将近 4 年前

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xiaolingxiao将近 4 年前
There was a professor at Penn that would keep a light bulb on his shelf. He took it out once and asked us what it is: none of us could answer it.<p>It turns out, it was a bit from the Eniac! The lightbulb is connected to a magnet so that when switched on, the magnet would represent and 1, and the lightbulb would light up alerting the programmers that the bit is indeed on.<p>There would be 16 (or 32 I can&#x27;t remember) such bits on a wooden board, representing one integer. It&#x27;s wild how far we have come. At the computer lab in the school, there is a part of the ENIAC on display, it was huge.
user3939382将近 4 年前
Somewhat tangential but anytime I see Eniac mentioned I think of this short story: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;EPICAC_(short_story)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;EPICAC_(short_story)</a><p>The computer’s name (EPICAC) is a parody of Eniac but a homonym of a syrup used to induce vomiting lol
jp57将近 4 年前
&gt; ENIAC could multiply two, ten digit numbers 357 times per second, and it required 150 kilowatts of electrical power to operate, which works out to about a tenth watt per computation.<p>What am I missing here? A watt is already a rate, joules&#x2F;sec, so &quot;watt per computation&quot; doesn&#x27;t make sense. But even assuming they author meant &quot;per joule&quot;, the math doesn&#x27;t work. In a second it could do 357 computations and use 150,000 Joules of energy = 420 Joules per computation.
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kevinwang将近 4 年前
Only 75... It&#x27;s amazing how commonplace computers are now, only a lifetime later. In 75 years they went from invented to taken for granted.