Soon BRL commissioned work on a new high-speed computer with Mauchly as chief ... It took about a year to design ENIAC, and 18 months to build it. By the time it was completed, in November 1945 ...

Little did they realize how different that early computer was from the ones that would be built a mere fifty years later. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. John ...

The military built firing tables for shell trajectories ... A filament rated for 6.3V, for example, would run at 5.7V. Like a modern computer, ENIAC operated on a master clock and using digital ...

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 ...