ENIAC was built in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Penn. Designed and built under the supervision of John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
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The ENIAC computer no longer exists as a single machine. Many of it's parts were scrapped or reused in other projects. The remaining parts are in various museums across the country.
Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator.
EMERAC (an allusion to the early computers UNIVAC and ENIAC)
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When it comes to what was the first computer the answer can be quite complicated. Some would consider the Abacus, invented over 2,000 years ago, a computer. But for practical terms the first real computer that could be programmed is the Z1 invented in 1936 in Germany. It probably weighed around 200 pounds.The ENIAC 1 computer invented by the U.S. Army in 1947 to calculate artillery fire was the worlds first computer using vacuum tubes. It cost $500,000 ($6,000,000 in todays money) to build. It contained 17,468 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, 1,500 relays, & 6,000 manual switches. It weighed 30 tons and covered 1,800 square feet.