Originally Posted by Joseph Land
Well my ENIAC computer contains 18,000 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, and approximately 5,000,000 hand-soldered joints.
I never worked with the ENIAC (developed around 1945) but I did program the UNIVAC 1100 (developed around 1951) using Fortran. They weren’t called “IT guys” back then but their equivalent would allocate precious CPU time on a strict priority basis. I was a young buck 20 something and I quickly learned that I could get all the CPU time I wanted . . . but only after 10 PM frown

Then we had these big, solid, dark olive screens with fluorescent green text that we used. I think Sperry built them. Prior to that for me it was the slide rule and then early hand calculators. Those were interesting/fun days.

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