ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first general-purpose, programmable electronic computer.

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On the evening of September 9, 1947, a strange silence fell over the Harvard Computation Laboratory. The Mark II electromechanical computerâ a colossal machine of whirring motors, clacking relays, and ...