John Mauchly (1907-1980) & J. Presper Eckert (1919-1995)
Featured Story ENIAC
ENIAC 1: John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly
20,000 vacuum tubes later... our own in-depth feature. The ENIAC I (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator) was developed by John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert in 1946.
Reference Material on ENIAC
John Maunchly : Development of the ENIAC Computer
An exhibition in the Department of Special Collections at Van Pelt Library presented online in a several-part feature.
Maunchly: The Computer and the Skateboard
A film about the life of John Maunchly directed by Paul David - site includes video clips of Maunchly speaking.
Interview J. Presper Eckert
An interview conducted at the "Division of Computers, Information & Society" at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert are the scientists credited with the invention of the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC), the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, completed in 1946.
Guess Who's The ENIAC
PBS hosts this educational guessing game.
The ENIAC Virtual Museum
The ENIAC museum is housed at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania.
Jean Bartik
First ENIAC computer programmer.
Featured Story UNIVAC
The UNIVAC Computer
The Universal Automatic Computer or UNIVAC was another computer milestone achieved by Dr. J. Presper Eckert and Dr. John W. Mauchly.
Reference Material on UNIVAC
Unisys History Newsletter
The Unisys History Newsletter - written and published by George Gray, a systems programmer for the State of Georgia Department of Administrative Services. These six articles cover the history and technical data of the UNIVAC.
The Paul Revere of Computers
An excellent essay on the business history of the UNIVAC - by K. Ryan Weston.
Birthplace of the World's First Business Computer
Remington Rand was a predecessor of Unisys Corporation. In 1950, the Remington Rand Corporation bought the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and changed the name to the Univac Division of Remington Rand. Their research resulted in the UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer), an important forerunner of today's computers.
The UNIVAC Flow Chart
Technical and Historical Information
UNIVAC
Picture of the UNIVAC computer.
Penn Library Collection
A short illustrated essay on Eckert, Mauchly and the UNIVAC.
EDVAC
In August 1944, John Mauchly and J Presper Eckert proposed the building of a new machine called the electronic discrete variable automatic computer or EDVAC.
EDVAC
EDVAC was the first internally stored program computer to be built, a major improvement over the ENIAC.
EDVAC Specs
Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
The EDVAC Design
EDVAC
EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was to be a vast improvement upon ENIAC.
The First Stored Program Computer -- EDVAC
Related Innovations
History of Computers
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