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 ...

The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), revealed to the public ... as “refrigerator ladies”, a dismissive term for models posing next to machinery they did not understand.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If a vacuum tube is not available, you might use a 25-watt light bulb as a model for the vacuum tube. Indicate that ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), built in 1946 and ...