More than most youthful industries, the burgeoning U.S. computer business is dominated by giants—IBM, Philco, Sperry Rand. A notable exception is an aggressive young Minneapolis firm with the ...

From a technological perspective, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was an unqualified success. But the story behind ENIAC--its development and demise--is a classic illustration of how ...

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 ...