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Bookmark or Share- Computers | Timeline of Computer History | Computer History Museum - CHMThe Roadrunner is the first computer to reach a sustained performance of 1 petaflop (one thousand trillion floating point operations per second). It used two different microprocessors: an IBM POWER XCell L8i and AMD Opteron. It was used to model the decay of the US nuclear arsenal, analyze financial data, and render 3D medical images in real-time.
- Who Invented the First Computer? - HowStuffWorksThe first computer that resembled the modern machines we see today was invented by Charles Babbage between 1833 and 1871. He developed a device, the analytical engine, and worked on it for nearly 40 years. It was a mechanical computer that was powerful enough to perform simple calculations.
- Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism, the First ComputerDecoding the Antikythera Mechanism, the First Computer. Hidden inscriptions offer new clues to the origins of a mysterious astronomical mechanism
- History of computing - WikipediaThe ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer, announced to the public in 1946. It was Turing-complete, [ 45 ] digital, and capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.
- ENIAC - WikipediaENIAC (/ ˈ ɛ n i æ k /; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) [1] [2] was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. [3] [4] Other computers had some of these features, but ENIAC was the first to have them all.
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