Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the same duo who invented ENIAC, went on to design another major figure in computer history: UNIVAC. UNIVAC was a line of stored-program computers first used by ...

The BINAC (completed in August 1949) and the UNIVAC were the first computers to employ magnetic tape drives for data storage.

If you are interested in that kind of history, you should read a paper entitled “Electronic Computing Circuits of the ENIAC” by [Arthur W. Burks]. These mid-century designers used tubes and ...

ENIAC filled an entire room. With its bank of blinking lights and 6,000 manual switches, it looked like something we'd associate with a 1950s science fiction movie. Probably because it's what ...