Subsequent years were not kind to the inventors. Mauchly and Eckert began the first commercial computer corporation, building an Eniac successor. But their firm struggled and the pair sold the ...

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 ...

(The vacuum tube-powered ENIAC, for example ... engineers from Bell Labs built the first computer without vacuum tubes. Known as TRADIC (for TRAnsistorized DIgital Computer), the machine was ...

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 ...