jan 1, 1945 - ENIAC
Description:
Two professors from the University of Pennsylvania, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, design and build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC). The machine is the first "automatic, general-purpose, electronic, decimal, digital computer," according to Edwin D. Reilly's book "Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology" (Greenwood Press, 2003).Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1945
Now
~ 80 years ago