ENIAC
The U.S. Census Bureau First Dedicated UNIVAC 61 Years Ago Today
At their core, computers are about counting, and it's easy to forget just how _hard_ that is to do electronically (as compared to, say, an abacus). That's what made UNIVAC, the world's first commercially produced digital computer, so impressive. UNIVAC...
How the First Digital Computer Didn't Really Change Anything and Died In Obscurity
Contrary to popular belief, the first computer wasn't Philadelphia's ENIAC. It was the desk-size machine built by "John Vincent Atanasoff":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vincent_Atanasoff and Clifford Berry in the basement of the physics building at...
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