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 ...

This was not a dream of science fiction, but a representation of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator ... Soon BRL commissioned work on a new high-speed computer with Mauchly as chief consultant ...

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 ...