
Critical.
Authoritative.
Strategic.
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Authoritative.
Strategic.

Introduced to the world on February 14, 1946, the ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer - was developed by the University of Pennsylvania's John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert under a 1943 contract with the U.S. Army. It was the world's first large-scale electronic general-purpose digital computer, and its development was the birth of large computing systems that dominated the industry for years to come. Here we take a quick look at its development and history.