When we talk about a “computer” today, we generally picture an electronic machine that can perform various kinds of mathematical operations, manage its program flow, move data from one place ...

Mauchly, had circulated some memos about how a powerful new kind of electronic calculator ... the Iowan’s never-completed computer was not a general-purpose machine and lacked many of Eniac ...

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 ...