Subsequent years were not kind to the inventors. Mauchly and Eckert began the first commercial computer corporation, building an Eniac successor. But their firm struggled and the pair sold the ...

For some deep history on the construction and early use of ENIAC, you might also enjoy the video below from computer historian [Dr. Thomas Haigh]. He mentions that some of the quoted speeds for ...

Probably because it's what spawned those movies anyway. ENIAC, the mammoth machine credited with helping to start the computer age, fueled the public's imagination about how science and computers ...

Well, no. Many of us who went to school and have degrees in various computer related fields instantly think of ENIAC as the first “computer”, but we’re all wrong. We know some of you are ...

Colossus, a British computer used for code-breaking, is operational by December of 1943. ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzor and Computer, is developed by the Ballistics Research ...

When did the history of computing begin? The 1945 creation of the first programmable computer, ENIAC, is a good guess. Or maybe we stretch it back to Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s work on ...

Computers have become sleeker and faster since the early days of ENIAC. Track the history of computing power from 1946 to the present.

He is also a scholar of computer history, focusing specifically on early computing technology, including the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) — the first computer. Stuart has ...