1945-? ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)

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"'The army described the machine as 1,000 times faster than the most advanced calculating machine previously built and declared the apparatus makes it possible 'to solve in hours problems which would take years' on any other machine."
"As powerful as it was, the ENIAC wasn't enough."
"Most notable among them was the ENIAC, built for the army by a team of mathematicians and engineers at University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering. The computer was an instant sensation."
"The ENIAC didn't come fast enough to help with the war, but it stayed in operation for nearly a decade, crunching firing tables, running atomic bomb calculations, and building weather models of the Soviet climate, including mapping the potential spread...
1943-1946 It was here that the first general-purpose Turing complete digital electronic computer, the ENIAC, was built between 1943 and 1946.
1948 "'Philadelphia, PA-The war department tonight unveiled 'the world's fastest calculating machine' and said the robot possibly opened the mathmatical way to better living for every man. ...
It "is called the 'ENIAC' - shor for 'electronic numerical integrator and computer.' It also has been nicknamed the 'mechanical Einstein.'"