In the mid 1990s, the Moore School created “ENIAC-on-a-Chip,” a single 7.44×5.29-mm chip that held all of ENIAC’s functionality. Parts of the computer are now on display at several museums across the ...

(For the computer's 50th anniversary, ENIAC-on-a-chip was actually made by a team of students led by Penn Engineering professor Jan van der Spiegel in 1996.) ...

Seeing ENIAC, one of the first true programmable computers, has been tricky; the giant mainframe was partly restored in 2007, but it was only visible in an office building. At last, though, you ...

Along with the ENIAC, some of the locations and milestones highlighted on the map include: Eckert and Mauchly Computer Corporation — the world’s first computer company (Philadelphia) 6502 Chip — the ...

For comparison, an Intel Core Duo chip does about 21.5 billion operations per second. Fine-tuning ENIAC. J. Presper Eckert (the man in the foreground turning a knob) ...

ENIAC is built 1945. Photo: ENIAC. A bank of blinking lights indicate the mysterious processes going on within: That classic symbol of a computer has lasted long after computers evolved into ...