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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This was not a dream of science fiction, but a representation of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer), the gigantic machine credited with starting the modern computer age.