Along with subsequent computers that also used vacuum tubes, ENIAC was known as a first-generation computer. ENIAC could execute up to 5,000 additions per second, multiple orders of magnitude ...

In general, I like the idea of going back to first principles. However, if I were teaching CPU design, I’m not sure I’d go this far back to start. Understanding how ENIAC and other computers ...

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 ...

Various university campuses in Britain and the US were home to first-generation computers like ENIAC, EDVAC and the Manchester Baby in the late 1940s. Silicon Valley then stole the limelight with ...