Computer History ENIAC: Starting up the ENIAC! 7 STEPS TO POWER ON THE SYSTEM Eckert-Mauchly 1946
Computer History ENIAC: Starting up the ENIAC! Discover the 7 STEPS TO POWER ON THE ENIAC COMPUTER. Specific procedure explained in 5 minutes. The ENIAC was designed and developed by J. Presper Eckert and Dr. John Mauchly and their team in from 1944 to 1946 at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania. ENIAC was the first general purpose, programmable, large scale digital computer in the U.S. A top secret program during the 1940's, it first ran in 1945, and was publicly announced in February 1946, 80 years ago this month! (see ENIAC Anniversary Day event below). Original footage included of the 1946 machine in operation, with partially restored B&W footage. Runs about 5 minutes. -- uploaded by Computer History Archives Project (CHAP). ABOUT THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT BY COMPUSEUM, FEB 15TH, 2026, Visit -- • ENIAC Day Celebration and Compuseum https://thecompuseum.org/ ABC News Coverage Link for ABC News Coverage of ENIAC 80th Here: • World's first electronic computer born at ... Students Create Full Sized ENIAC Replica https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/2... Further Suggested Reading: -New History of Modern Computing: Co-Author Dr. Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi, MIT Press, 2021; (Amzn https://a.co/d/0ighKnFX) -Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer,Kathy Kleiman; Grand Central Publishing, 2023, (Amzn https://a.co/d/01pSFoIG) -Computer: A History of the Information Machine (4th Edition) by Martin Campbell-Kelly, William F. Aspray, Jeffrey R. Yost, Honghong Tinn, Routledge, 2023 (Amz https://z.umn.edu/Computer_A_History ) ENIAC References and Resources for this Film: = = = = = = = U.S. Army Archives UNISYS Archives U.S. Census Bureau National Museum of American History (Smithsonian) University of Pennsylvania, Moore School Hagley Museum and Library https://www.hagley.org Computer History Museum https://computerhistory.org Charles Babbage Institute https://cse.umn.edu/cbi VIP Club MN Retirees & former employees of Unisys, Lockheed Martin, & heritage Companies https://vipclubmn.org
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