Scientists Prepare to Reactivate ENIAC From: Morning Edition (NPR) | Date: February 14, 1996 | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

NPR Morning Edition

02-14-1996

Scientists are celebrating 50 years of computing history today by reactivating ENIAC. In its day, there was much excitement over ENIAC, as it was compared to a giant brain.

BOB EDWARDS, Host: Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania today will mark 50 years of electronic history by reactivating ENIAC, the grand-daddy of computers. ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was the first fully electronic ge...

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