The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...

ENIAC is the world's first electronic computer. As a stand-alone device, it didn't support networking, although it ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer. Engineer Thomas Kite Sharpless gives a demonstration of the EDVAC at the ...

Seventeen years ago, when two University of Pennsylvania professors developed the first electronic computer, International Business Machines sniffed that it had no commercial future. But in the early ...

This isn’t your average eBay auction. For those who want to own a bit of computer and Internet history, the venerable auction house Christie’s International is putting on the block a collection of ...