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ENIAC

First electronic general-purpose computer

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Details

Instance of: one-of-a-kind computer, decimal computer, first-generation computer
Part of: University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science
Followed by: UNIVAC I
Location: University of Pennsylvania
Country: United States
Operator: Jean Bartik, Marlyn Meltzer, Ruth Teitelbaum, Betty Holberton, Frances Spence, Kathleen Antonelli
capital cost: 500000
commissioned by: United States Army
date of official opening: 15 February 1946
designed by: John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, Jeffrey Chuan Chu, Arthur Burks, Harry Huskey
length: 150 ft
mass: 27
official name: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
service retirement: 1955
short name: ENIAC
topic's main category: Category:ENIAC

Connected on Wikidata

Notable work of

Jean Bartik
Betty Holberton
Kathleen Antonelli
Ruth Teitelbaum
Marlyn Meltzer
Frances Spence
Arthur Burks
ENIAC Six

Subject of

Top Secret Rosies: The Female "Computers" of WWII

Basis for

ORDVAC

Influenced

Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator

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Authority files

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