Along with subsequent computers that also used vacuum tubes, ENIAC was known as a first-generation computer. ENIAC could execute up to 5,000 additions per second, multiple orders of magnitude ...

There’s a Blue Bendix in Texas, and thanks to [Usagi Electric] it’s the oldest operating computer in North America. The Bendix G-15, a vacuum tube computer originally released in 1956 ...

A computer that used vacuum tubes as switching elements; for example, the UNIVAC I. See computer generations. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

[Usagi Electric] is breathtakingly close to having his Bendix G15 vacuum tube computer up and running ... the big green “Reset” button. The first attempt was stymied by a blown fuse.