Why engineers in Philadelphia created ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer

When it comes to innovation in the computer science field, Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania play a huge role. Technology continues to advance rapidly. Take, for example, the CBS ...
Computerworld

The Eckert Tapes: Computer Pioneer Says ENIAC Team Couldn’t Afford to Fail — and Didn’t

There are two epochs in computer history: before ENIAC and after ENIAC. While there are controversies about who invented what, there’s universal agreement that the Electronic Numerical Integrator and ...
New Atlas

British spy agency releases previously secret images of Colossus computer

Britain's hush hush Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) intelligence and security organization has released new images never before made public of Colossus, the world's first digital ...
Network World

Newsreel reveals that even 1946 debut of ENIAC was greeted with ‘1984’-ish suspicion

Are people becoming obsolete? A giant electronic brain has started cogitating at the University of Pennsylvania. It’s made of vacuum tubes like your radio and it can add up a column of figures a yard ...