When I first got interested in computers ... 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 switching ...

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 ...

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 ...

(The vacuum tube-powered ENIAC, for example ... engineers from Bell Labs built the first computer without vacuum tubes. Known as TRADIC (for TRAnsistorized DIgital Computer), the machine was ...

Konrad Zuse, a German engineer, completes the first general purpose ... is operational by December of 1943. ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzor and Computer, is developed by the ...

When did the history of computing begin? The 1945 creation of the first programmable computer, ENIAC, is a good guess. Or maybe we stretch it back to Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s work on ...

though John Mauchly and J Presper Eckert are credited with building the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ENIAC in 1945, which was the first electronic general-purpose digital computer.