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ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer. As a stand-alone device, it didn't support networking, although it facilitated a network of humans who used it for years to aid the efforts of World War ...
Filling up a 30 X 50 foot room, ENIAC was made of 17, 468 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors, and 10,000 capacitors -- not to mention all those lights and switches.
ENIAC : A computer is born ENIAC--monster and marvel--debuted 60 years ago By Michael Kanellos Staff writer, CNET News.com February 13, 2006, 4:00 AM PST In February 1946, J. Presper Eckert and ...
There are many reasons why working in Philly tech is inherently cool, but one of our favorites is that the city is the birthplace of the world’s very first all-electronic, programmable computer — the ...
Sixty-five years ago today, the first newspaper accounts of the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer hit newsstands. From the Feb. 15, 1946 New York Times, a page one headline reads: ...
This was not a dream of science fiction, but a representation of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer), the gigantic machine credited with starting the modern computer age ...
Though the Iowan’s never-completed computer was not a general-purpose machine and lacked many of Eniac’s groundbreaking attributes (like a “clock” that governed the timing of computational ...
John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of the mammoth ENIAC computer in 1945, believed by many computer experts and historians to be the first electronic digital computer, died on Saturday in Bryn Mawr, Pa.
The computer ENIAC with two operators. ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer. As a stand-alone device, it didn't support networking, although it facilitated a network of humans who used ...