ENIAC, the mammoth machine credited with helping to start the computer age ... Filling up a 30 X 50 foot room, ENIAC was made of 17, 468 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors, and 10,000 capacitors ...

It was only when I became a technology writer some years later that I realized that my landlord had invented ... began the first commercial computer corporation, building an Eniac successor.

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 ...

The army, with its need for ever-faster and more efficient calculations ... engineers from Bell Labs built the first computer without vacuum tubes. Known as TRADIC (for TRAnsistorized DIgital ...