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 ...

When I first got interested in computers ... A filament rated for 6.3V, for example, would run at 5.7V. Like a modern computer, ENIAC operated on a master clock and using digital switching ...

(The vacuum tube-powered ENIAC, for example ... engineers from Bell Labs built the first computer without vacuum tubes. Known as TRADIC (for TRAnsistorized DIgital Computer), the machine was ...

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 ...

including the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) — the first computer. Stuart has published and presented extensively on the history and evolution of various computer systems, ...

Sometimes, it can be problematic for these innocent machines placed in public when an unexpected error message or BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) pops out of nowhere. Let's look at some incidents where ...

Konrad Zuse, a German engineer, completes the first general purpose ... is operational by December of 1943. ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzor and Computer, is developed by the ...