In February 1946, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly were about to unveil, for the first time, an electronic computer to the world. Their ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could ...

(1) For Elon Musk's AI computer, see Project Colossus. (2) A British computer that was designed to break German encryption codes in World War II. Installed at the historic Bletchley Park estate in ...

Before Colossus, ENIAC, and even the difference engine, there was the “Antikythera Mechanism”—a mysterious device that some researchers now say may be the world’s oldest computer. The mechanism, which ...

The earliest stored program computer in the modern sense was not one of the names such as ENIAC or Colossus that you might expect, but the Manchester Baby, an experimental prototype computer built at ...

The University of Pennsylvania rolls out the first all-electronic general-purpose digital computer, called ENIAC (one shown). The Colossus electronic computers had been used by British code-breakers ...