John W. Mauchly The trail that led to the design, creation and operation of the first large-scale computer designed for general numerical computations originates with John W. Mauchly. The inspiration for the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC, occurred in the early 1930's when Mauchly, long frustrated with the slow pace of traditional calculators, began thinking of building his own ... would become business partners and life-long friends. In the summer of 1942, Mauchly and Presper Eckert drafted a "proposal titled "The Use of High Speed Vacuum Tube Devices for Calculation"...

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