The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first desktop computer. It was developed in the 1940s and was in use by the US military until 1955.
The ENIAC was made up of 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighed 27,000 pounds. It could perform 5,000 calculations per second.
The ENIAC was developed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. They began working on it in 1943, and it was completed in 1945.
Was ENIAC the first computer?
The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was the first electronic, general-purpose, programmable computer. It was created by John Mauchly and J. Presper …