A computer in the School of Engineering and Applied Science used as an e-mail and news server. Named after the world's first general- purpose electronic digital computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator, developed by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr. at Penn in 1946. That machine was originally designed for the production of ballistic tables for WWII, but was not completed until after the war had ended. The academic and commercial computing world will join Penn in celebrating ENIAC's 50th anniversary in 1996.
Considered by many to be the first useful computer. Completed in 1946 by John Eckert and John Mauchly.
Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer (First fully electronic digital computer)
Completed in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania, ENIAC was the first general-purpose programmable electronic digital computer. It was originally designed to produce ballistic tables for use in the Second World War.
The first totally electronic computer.
The worlds first electronic digital computer. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, built in 1944, the early, cumbersome ancestor of the modern computer.
Electronic Numberic Integrator and Calculator. An early, vacuum tube, large scale, electronic computer.
Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator. The very first electronic computer human invented
n. An 1800-square-foot, 30-ton computer containing 17,468 vacuum tubes and 6,000 manual switches. Developed between 1942 and 1946 for the U.S. Army by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania, ENIAC is considered to have been the first truly electronic computer. It remained in operation until 1955.
ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was the first large-scale, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems,Shurkin, Joel, Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from Mainframes to Microprocessors, 1996, ISBN 0-393-31471-5 although earlier computers had been built with some of these properties. ENIAC was designed and built to calculate artillery firing tables for the U.S. Army's Ballistics Research Laboratory.