There was only one ENIAC made and various parts of it are scattered in museums. Unfortunately much of the computer is gone. Tom’s book ENIAC in Action is superb!

2021 marks 75 years since Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was first revealed to the public. An important part of computing history, ENIAC’s development was a collection of ...

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ENIAC did not have a single moving mechanical part. Instead, it was a machine comprised of several units, featuring ...

ENIAC was the world's first electronic digital computer, and though it was glossed over in the history books, it was programmed by a team of six women. Remembering their contributions could ...

Then, on February 15, 1946, ENIAC was unveiled to the press. As part of this, the Pathé newsreel cameras were invited to film the tubes flashing as the computer solved a missile trajectory in 20 ...

ENIAC is built 1945. Photo: ENIAC. A bank of blinking lights indicate the mysterious processes going on within: That classic symbol of a computer has lasted long after computers evolved into ...

In part he ruled that crucial elements of ENIAC derived from prior work by John V. Atanasoff, an inventor who had built a special-purpose electronic computer at Iowa State College in the late 1930's.

"Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the Worlds First Modern Computer" by by Kathy Kleiman. When the world's first general-purpose, programmable, electronic computer ...

But by the time Eniac was completed, the war was over. The machine did not boot up until November 1945, when 300 neon lights attached to accumulators lit up a basement room at the Moore School.

ENIAC, with its 17,468 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, 1,500 relays, and 6,000 manual switches, was a monument of engineering -- and an energy hog. The city of Philadelphia ...