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 ...

In February 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were about to unveil, for the first time, an electronic computer to the world. Their ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ...

The ENIAC was a 27-ton, 1,800-square-foot bundle of vacuum tubes and diodes that was arguably the world’s first true computer. The hardware that Perot’s team diligently unearthed and lovingly ...

Subsequent years were not kind to the inventors. Mauchly and Eckert began the first commercial computer corporation, building an Eniac successor. But their firm struggled and the pair sold the ...

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.

Sixty-five years ago today, the first newspaper accounts of the Electronic ... and its true power is being said to have introduced the modern computer. Below, we share 10 things about the ENIAC that ...

ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer. As a stand-alone device, it didn't support networking, although it ...

The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, “ENIAC,” was 8ft by 80ft and comprised of 40 ... Ruth Lichterman and Betty Jean Jennings had no instruction manual and at first weren’t even allowed ...

This lesson plan about the development of the world's first computer, the ENIAC, and the contributions of six women programmers opens with a reflective question that ask students to consider the ...

Grand Central Publishing. 320 pages. $30. When the world’s first general-purpose, programmable, electronic computer, known as ENIAC, debuted in 1946, great fanfare was given to the men who ...

Subsequent years were not kind to the inventors. Mauchly and Eckert began the first commercial computer corporation, building an Eniac successor. But their firm struggled and the pair sold the ...

The computer ENIAC with two operators. 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 ...