The first computer didn’t show up looking like anything we’d call a computer now. There was no screen, no keyboard, no mouse, and definitely no controller waiting beside it. Early computers were built ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a piece of Philadelphia history that powered the future. The world's first electronic computer was born at the University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Giant Brain made history in many ways Apic / Getty Images The computer ENIAC with two operators. ENIAC is the world's first ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer. Engineer Thomas Kite Sharpless gives a demonstration of the EDVAC at the ...

Eighty years ago, Penn researchers J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly launched the age of electronic computing by harnessing electrons to solve complex numerical problems with ENIAC, the world's first ...

The University of Pennsylvania is home to a portion of computing history. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- One of the most important pieces ...

In the heart of Manchester, UK, a groundbreaking event took place in 1948: the first modern computer, known as the Manchester Baby, ran its very first program. The Baby’s ability to execute stored ...