How do the computers of 1940 and 1950 compare to modern computers?

Answer 1

There was only one electronic computer in World War Two, which was called ENIAC, and was a building full of vacuum tubes. It was built to calculate artillery projectile paths, and had to have the program wired in. It had no memory, and displayed the output with glowing lights.

Answer 2

Computers today are more smaller, high tech, can hold more info, faster, contain more data, and have more purposes. World War 2 computers are huge that have to take of a whole room, lag a lot(very slow), and much more complicated to use.

Note these are just the basics

Answer 3

The computers of the early 1940s were analog computers. They were developed for warfare. They consisted of Tubes and looked like light bulbs. They performed differential equations. They were used with Radar and aimed antiaircraft guns.

In 1946 the first digital computer was developed. It also used tubes. It used several thousand of them, and filled a large room. They constantly blinked on and off.

Since a digital tube computer required thousands of tubes to do what an analogue computer could do with a few tubes, the two developed side by side until the early 1950s.

The early transistors were not reliable. When their reliability improved, the transistor replaced the tube. The digital computer took off. Today number crunching has just about replaced using a computer for differential equations.

Answer 4

The computers in the 1940s and 1950s were physically much larger, much slower and did not have the power and capabilities that modern computers have. They used different kinds of technology and would not be able to do the types of things that modern computers do.