Word: eniac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computer is thus the ultimate machine. It can do anything any machine could do, so in one sense it is the end of progress. All of history before the construction of ENIAC in 1944 was but the slow gestation of the monster that is now taking its first halting steps. The rest of history will consist wholly of the development of its potential...
...today's standards, Mark I was as slow and awkward as a manual adding machine. In two years it was shoved aside by the University of Pennsylvania's celebrated ENIAC, which, as the first electronic computer, used 18,000 vacuum tubes as circuits and quick-acting switches. Though they were a big advance, vacuum tubes proved too expensive, too unreliable and too bulky: ENIAC weighed 30 tons and took up 1,500 sq. ft. of floor space. Until 1954, when Remington Rand (now Sperry Rand) first sold its UNIVAC to industry, the few computers in the U.S. were...
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA John Presper Eckert Jr., co-developer (at Penn in 1942) of ENIAC, first electronic digital computer...