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 ...

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.

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 ...