Cold War And ENIAC Analysis

During the World War II and the Cold War, there was a need in military usage to helped influence the digital computer influence. What the military need were to have faster calculation, deciphering enemies code, and protection at home base; these were the goals needed to help win the war. With these goals in mind, the military and the geniuses would able to created the ENIAC for inputting faster calculation of the target’s range, the Colossus Mark for breaking the German’s code and ending the world quicker, and the S.A.G.E. a computer-controlled air defense of the U.S., protecting the people from the Soviet Union’s air strike. Among each ideal goal, whether it was offense or defense, each goal had replicated itself into the digital computer.
ENIAC is known the Electronic Numeric Integrator and Computer or Project PX, which was created by John W. Mauchly as chief consultant and John Presper Eckrt as chief engineer. The idea was to create a compute for calculating artillery ballistic table with the setting used for different weapons under varies conditions for target accuracy. However before having the idea of creating ENIAC, there was already a Ballistic Research …show more content…
This had given Mauchly the idea to create a computer to give outputs of trajectory for both water and air craft, because it would had taken a person a longer time to complete the trajectory. Thus, the ENIAC project began in 1943; however the ENIAC had flaws, which were that there were little storage, too many tubes, and had lengthy reprogramming. John Von Neumann had became the new consultant and created ENIAC’s successor EDVAC. The difference is that the EDVAC has five functioning parts: the central control, central arithmetic part, memory, input organs and output organs. Even though it was completed after the war, it was later used in the Cold War for calculating the construction of the hydrogen