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jan 1, 1946 - ENIAC (relay, vacuum)

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U Penn
first general purpose programmable computer
ballistics work
publicly unvieled
used 40 plug in boards
von Neumann described the concept of storing a program using ENIAC but it is not the first computer to store a program

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jan 1, 1946
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~ 80 years ago