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Did you know? ENIAC (1946), the first American "supercomputer", weighed 30 tonnes, filled a 167 m² room, used 18,000 vacuum tubes, and consumed so much power that the street lights of West Philadelphia dimmed when it was on. It was 1,000× faster than electromechanical computers — and today is thousands of times outpaced by a pocket calculator.

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ENIAC (1946), the first American "supercomputer", weighed 30 tonnes, filled a 167 m² room, used 18,000 vacuum tubes, and consumed so much power that the street lights of West Philadelphia dimmed when it was on. It was 1,000× faster than electromechanical computers — and today is thousands of times outpaced by a pocket calculator.

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