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Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Image No. SIA2010-2901
ENIAC was the first electronic digital computer. Built at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania between 1944 and 1946. It was used at the Aberdeen Proving Ground of the U.S. Army Ordnance Department from 1947 until 1955. ENIAC, whose full name was Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, spent much of its life integrating systems of differential equations which the Army and Air Force needed to compute ballistics tables.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Image No. SIA2010-2901
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Information technology
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SIA RU000285 [SIA2010-2901]
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