Gallery: How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap

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    ENIAC, IBM's electrical problem-solving

    An ENIAC clerk registers information with banks of dials, at Aberdeen Proving Ground, 1947.
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    ENIAC ECKERT MAUCHLY

    J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly are pictured with the ENIAC computer at the University of Pennsylvania, 1946.
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    L'ordinateur ENIAC

    The ENIAC computer, 1946.
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    ENIAC 4

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    OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

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