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ENIAC filled an entire room. With its bank of blinking lights and 6,000 manual switches, it looked like something we'd associate with a 1950s science fiction movie. Probably because it's what spawned ...

From a technological perspective, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was an unqualified success. But the story behind ENIAC--its development and demise--is a classic illustration of how ...

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