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What was the first general-purpose electronic computer

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What was the first general-purpose electronic computer?

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The first general purpose programmable electronic computer was the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), built by J. Presper Eckert and John V. Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Nisha Singh
Nisha Singh 6 years ago
I think UNIVAC is correct answer.
Durgesh Tanwar
Durgesh Tanwar 8 years ago
ENIAC size was very big and they had used 18000 vacuum tubes in the making of this machine. How can it be described as general purpose electronic computer? Because for doing simple calculations they needed to change the vacuum tubes. I don't think it is right answer.
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