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 ...

This machine, known as the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Automatic Calculator) is the invention of Dr. J. W. Mauchly and Mr. J. P. Eckert, of the Moore School of Electrical ...

So, for those reasons, Computing brings you a gallery of ancient machines ... we present the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator II. It was the first computer to have a microprogrammed ...