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ENIAC is First Computer

Published on September 12, 2020

Posted in: Science, Technology & Medicine, Tidbits

On April 14, 1946, Dr. Arthur W. Burks walked over to a machine and asked it to multiply 97,367 by itself 5000 times. It did it in seconds. This was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer ever built.

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