Each accumulator could store one signed 10-digit decimal number. How many transistors did ENIAC have? None. They weren't invented yet. Instead, ENIAC relied on vacuum tubes. What was the first ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, Eniac itself was broken up ... How would you like to have invented the machine that changed the course of civilization? I didn’t get to ask that question of the man whose name ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania into the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC. This was the first electronic computer used for general purposes. The Army wanted ...