The phrase "an electronic computer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a type of computer that operates using electronic components, distinguishing it from other types of computing devices.
Example: "In the 1950s, the development of an electronic computer revolutionized the field of data processing."
Alternatives: "a digital computer" or "an electronic device".
These operate relatively slowly, whereas the basic components of an electronic computer — originally vacuum tubes (valves) — have no moving parts save electrons and so operate extremely fast.
Sun Microsystems announced that it was in talks with Archipelago Holdings to offer an electronic computer exchange that would enable corporations and other institutions to bid on computing resources.
Explanation of parking cycle governed by an electronic computer.
British engineer Thomas Flowers took a different tack and built an electronic computer for Tunny breaking.
Talk story about an electronic computer for the edification of visitors to the Seattle World's Fair (opening Apr. 21).
In the case of an electronic computer, the CPU and fast memories are realized with transistor circuits.
Spots were automatically counted with an electronic computer-assisted imaging system (Autoimmun Diagnostika GmbH, Strassberg, Germany), which has been shown to be valid and precise [ 16].
17 Spinal ROM was evaluated by SpinalMouse® (Idiag, Volkerswill, Switzerland), an electronic, computer-aided measuring device that evaluates sagittal ROM of the spine and intersegmental angles in a noninvasive technique.
It is an open and unregulated community of people who communicate freely across an international electronic computer network [ 3].
Later on, in January 1944, came Colossus, an early electronic computer with 1,600 vacuum tubes.
He worked on mathematical models for weather prediction and introduced the Rossby equations, which were used in 1950 with an advanced electronic computer to forecast the weather.
