Fortunately, electronic computers were just becoming a thing.

幸运的是，电子计算机刚刚出现。

Demands for electronics, computer and machinery also rose.

电子设备、计算机和机器的需求量同样上升。

Designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, this was the world's first truly general purpose, programmable, electronic computer.

它由约翰·莫奇利和普尔斯伯·艾克特设计，它是世上第一个真正的" 通用目的" 的" 可编程" 的" 电子" 计算机。

In 1949 the electronic computer ENIAC was used for 70 machine hours to calculate pi to more than 2,000 decimal places.

1949 年，电子计算机 ENIAC 花 70 机器工时算出了π小数点后 2000 多位。

Early electronic computers, like the ENIAC, used a device called the vacuum tube.

早期的电子计算机， 如 ENIAC，使用一种称为真空管的装置。

Some early electronic computers were ternary, that's three states, and even quinary, using 5 states.

一些早期的电子计算机是三元的，即三个状态，甚至是五元的，使用 5 个状态。

Electronic computers work the same way, but instead of physical arrangements, the numbers are represented by electric voltages.

电子计算机的工作方式相同，但数字不是物理排列，而是用电压表示。

During the 60's, banks started installing other electronic computers that replaced punch cards with magnetic disks or tapes that could hold tens of megabytes!

在 60 年代，银行开始安装其他电子计算机，用可以容纳数十兆字节的磁盘或磁带代替打孔卡！

The world's first General-Purpose electronic computer, the Eniac, completed in 1946, used a ton of them.

世界上第一台通用电子计算机 Eniac 于 1946 年完成，使用了大量此类计算机。

Even the first electronic computers, like Colossus and ENIAC, were configured using huge panels of mechanical controls and patch wires.

即使是第一台电子计算机，如 Colossus 和 ENIAC，也是使用巨大的机械控制面板和接线来配置的。

After the war, Turing and John von Neumann designed the first true programmable electronic computer, ENIAC, based on Turing's designs.

战后，图灵和约翰·冯·诺依曼根据图灵的设计设计出了第一台真正意义上的可编程电子计算机 ENIAC。

But before we get into all that, we should start at computing's origins, because although electronic computers are relatively new, the need for computation is not.

但在我们了解这一切之前，我们应该从计算的起源讲起虽然电子计算机是比较新出现的，但人类对于计算的需要并不是。

Named after John von Neumann, a prominent mathematician and physicist, who worked on the Manhattan project and several early electronic computers.

以著名的数学家和物理学家约翰·冯·诺依曼的名字命名，他参与了曼哈顿计划和几台早期的电子计算机。

These warehouse club stores also have things that you would not normally find in a grocery store, things like electronics: computers, big TVs.

这些仓库俱乐部商店也有您通常不会在杂货店找到的东西，例如电子产品：电脑、大电视。

Early in this series we covered computing history from roughly the dawn of civilization, up to the birth of electronic general purpose computers in the mid-1940s.

在本系列的早期，我们介绍了从文明诞生到 20 世纪 40 年代中期电子通用计算机诞生的计算历史。

Now electronic computer memory is great and all, but you still have to load the programming data in to the computer before it can run.

现在电子计算机内存很大，但还是得把编程数据载入计算机才能运行。

In 1953, there were only around 100 computers on the entire planet and at this point, the USSR was only a few years behind the West in computing technology, completing their first programmable electronic computer in 1950.

1953 年，整个地球上只有大约 100 台计算机，此时，苏联在计算技术上仅落后西方几年，并于 1950 年完成了他们的第一台可编程电子计算机。