Even with its advanced level of technological sophistication, ENIAC required programmers to fulfill its function. At the time, more than 80 women worked at the University of Pennsylvania as ...

There was a time when it would have been nearly impossible to try your hand at programming the ENIAC. Now, you can simulate one using a Java program. If you decide to accept the challenge ...

Unlike your modern desktop, ENIAC couldn't store any programming commands in its memory. It could only do one kind of program at a time, and to change the program meant completely rewiring it.

ENIAC's main drawback was that programming it was a nightmare. In that sense it was not a general use computer. To change its program meant essentially rewiring it, with punchcards and switches in ...

But [Mark] isn’t trying to beat computers like the ENIAC with a mobile ARM processor or other modern device. He’s now programming with the successor to the original Intel integrated circuit ...

What distinguished Eniac from the others was that a working machine performing thousands of calculations a second could be easily reprogrammed for different tasks. It was a breathtaking enterprise.