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What is it? . . . . . . A bird, a plane, a part from a car or perhaps a rare pre-Columbian artifact? . . . Use your imagination, combined with all your knowledge and experience, plus any clues in the picture, to figure out what it is! |
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Week of February 28, 2005: |
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Once you make your guess about what the image shows--or if you give up--scroll down to the bottom of this page, or click below, for the full picture.
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DON'T GO ANY FURTHER UNLESS YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT IT IS! |
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The thumbnail shows part of the "core memory" of ENIAC, the world's first computer. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer. It weighed over thirty tons. Its 19,000 vacuum tubes, 1,500 relays, and hundreds of thousands of resistors, capacitors, and inductors consumed almost 200 kilowatts of electrical power, but it had less computing power than a desktop computer of the 1990's. |
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This image is the property of the owners of the following website: http://ftp.arl.mil/ftp/historic-computers/ |
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