Part of what makes the ENIAC so different is that it had a different design principle than a modern computer. It was less a general purpose stored-program computer and more of a collection of ...

ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer. As a stand-alone device, it didn't support networking, although it facilitated a network of humans who used it for years to aid the efforts of World ...

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 ...

It’s fitting, then, that the first general-purpose electronic computer, ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was introduced to the world in 1946 on Valentine’s Day.

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 ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

The huge gadget was known as the “electronic numerical integrator and computer.” Its inventors—Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert—called it “eniac.” For their blue-ribbon ...

Known as TRADIC (for TRAnsistorized DIgital Computer), the machine was a mere three cubic feet, a mind-boggling size when compared with the 1000 square feet ENIAC hogged. It contained almost 800 ...

including the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) — the first computer. Stuart has published and presented extensively on the history and evolution of various computer systems, ...