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Piles of punch cards

Question: Fifty years ago the ENIAC computer was given a complicated ballistics problem to solve. How many IBM cards were needed to input the initial conditions?

  • 1,000
  • 10,000
  • 100,000
  • 1,000,000



Answer: 1,000,000

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