The World's Largest Computer in 1951

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In summary, the ENIAC was a massive machine weighing 30 tons, occupying 1,000 square feet of floor space, and containing over 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, 6,000 switches, and 18,000 vacuum tubes. It required 150 kilowatts of power to run, which was enough to light a small town. The final machine was less powerful than a $5 pocket calculator. The Russian Ekranoplan, also known as the Caspian Sea Monster, was a ground effect vehicle that could travel over 400 km/h and weighed 540 tons fully loaded. It was used as a high-speed military transport and could transport over 100 tonnes of cargo. The
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Woop!

I must confess, I'm not a human nutritional information bank, it was from Wiki in the end. But I did know it was Linseed, partly thanks to Wooly ruling out flax itself.

I'll have a quick think and be back with something tip top.

On second thoughts, Wooly can have a go since he sparked my train of thought for the last one (and I can't think of anything good at the moment).
 
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Thanks Brewy, try this, hope you like it MK.

Add an Egyptian god to tubular bells to get a fire breathing monster, found in 1553.
 
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Chimeria. .
 
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Mk said:
Chimeria. .

Your supposed to at least scratch your head for while :biggrin:
 
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lol. I figured the Egyptian god and tubular bells were too vague to use, so I looked for dragons and 1553.
 
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A fill in clue.

Type 39 was fitted with a full range of computer banks, which at the time were not fully miniaturised due to cost-saving measures. The isomorphic control mode did not work, and the control console was not fully developed.

What machine developed from this?
 
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Is it some kind of motor vehicle?
 
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jimmy p said:
Is it some kind of motor vehicle?

Hmmmm, well not in a conventional sence, but very loosely.
 
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Is it some kind of missile or torpedo... or a radio controlled unmanned vehicle?
 
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jimmy p said:
Is it some kind of missile or torpedo... or a radio controlled unmanned vehicle?

None of the above, no wheels or jet engines.
 
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? Is it real? It has to be. Why would someone go into so much detail over sci-fi. BLAST!
 
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TARDIS, the TARDIS is a fictional time machine and spacecraft in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. The name is an acronym of Time And Relative Dimension (or Dimensions) In Space.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~abr/drwho/tardis/type40/node5.html
 
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Mk said:
TARDIS, the TARDIS is a fictional time machine and spacecraft in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. The name is an acronym of Time And Relative Dimension (or Dimensions) In Space.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~abr/drwho/tardis/type40/node5.html [/

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:cry: correct,my next go will be much, much more difficult:smile:
 
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One from me: What was the date that the anthropomorphsim article in Wikipedia was started, and who did it?
 
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Mk said:
One from me: What was the date that the anthropomorphsim article in Wikipedia was started, and who did it?

28th oct 2001 ?
 
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Yes. And some guy that started it's name was Lilith.
 
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Mk said:
Yes. And some guy that started it's name was Lilith.

Will you go again MK, i am all out off ideas for the moment.
 
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I'll take my go now, should fill in some time.

At over 330 metres tall, this structure covers around 10,000 square kilometres. What is it?
 
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brewnog said:
I'll take my go now, should fill in some time.

At over 330 metres tall, this structure covers around 10,000 square kilometres. What is it?
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some sort of aerial array?
 
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What was the world's first working computer called and who built it.
 
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wolram said:
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some sort of aerial array?

On the right tracks! Think More.
 
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Art said:
What was the world's first working computer called and who built it.
Abacus or may be the digits on your danny.
 
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Charles Babbage's difference engine has already been brought up in this thread I think, but I don't know what the world's first working computer was, Babbage never built the engine. Joseph Clement made a pretty good stab at it though, he got part of it working in 1832 but funding was cut the year after. The difference engine was finally built in 1991! These the right kind of lines?
 
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brewnog said:
On the right tracks! Think More.
My ganglia has gone way beyond its CSP, let the young uns do some work:smile:
 
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Art said:
What was the world's first working computer called and who built it.
Babbage's difference engine No. 2, finally built in 1991, could hold 7 numbers of 31 decimal digits each and could thus tabulate 7th degree polynomials to that precision. The best machines from Scheutz were able to store 4 numbers with 15 digits each.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/galleryguide/E2052.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_Engine
 
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brewnog said:
I'll take my go now, should fill in some time.

At over 330 metres tall, this structure covers around 10,000 square kilometres. What is it?
Is it Basement Sill, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica?

A tongue of mostly large orthopyroxene crystals of a rough aerial extent of 10,000 km$^2$ occupies much of the ~330 m thick Basement Sill, which is the basal sill of the ~4 km thick Ferrar Dolerite sill sequence. The thickness of the tongue and the amount of the sill that it occupies locally is a direct indication of the location of the conduit that fed the Basement Sill during emplacement. The tongue is thickest near the zone of magma ascent (called the feeder zone), which is in the vicinity of Bull Pass where it fills nearly the entire sill. Away from the feeder zone the tongue thins, eventually disappearing, and also rises to maintain a vertically central position in the sill.
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:DXPqzR2ws0kJ:www.agu.org/meetings/fm05/fm05-sessions/fm05_V23A.html+10,000+km+330+m&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3
 
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What was the world's first working computer called and who built it.
Defense needs in World War II were the driving force behind the development of the first large electronic computer built in the United States. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), although completed at the end of 1945, after World War II had ended, was initially designed to calculate trajectories of projectiles. Developed by the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering for the Ballistic Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland, it was a general-purpose decimal machine containing 18,000 vacuum tubes. Its design was related to the Differential Analyzer built by Vannevar Bush, except that Bush's mechanical components, such as counters and adders, were replaced by electronic ones.
 
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Nope, it's not Basement Sill. It's a man-made structure.
 
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MK, the Difference Engine wasn't built until 1991, by which time we'd had electronic computers for quite a while!
 
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I need another clue Brewy.
 
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Wolram, think more. No wait, think Moor.
 
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RAF Fylingdales, an early warning station.
 
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No, but again, I think that was in this thread last year sometime too!

Your first guess was probably best.
 
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Some kind of power network?
 
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EMELY MOOR.

http://tx.mb21.co.uk/emley/emley-facts.asp#maps
 
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