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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer ... In the 1940s, physicist John Mauchly began working on his concept for an electronic calculating machine while teaching at the Moore School ...

ENIAC, with its 17,468 vacuum tubes ... But BRL heard about the work of John Mauchly at the Moore School. In 1942, he had suggested using vacuum tubes to speed computer calculations.

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