ENIAC Day
I remember reading about the first computers early on in life. I was always a fan of Grace Hopper, who experienced the first computer "bug" — and her pursuit of code and the operating system as well as her naval career in which she was a high ranking senior officer ... while I was starting out.The technology which she saw through it's infancy has seen me through my entire life and one of those machines used in her work was the UNIVAC.
Preceeding UNIVACs was the first model called the ENIAC.
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Each February 15 the City of Philadelphia officially declared on February 15, 2011 as ENIAC Day.
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the world's first general purpose electronic computer, developed at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.
It was programmed by six ladies who were not given credit for their contributions to ENIAC nor recognition for their integral roles until well after the program.
• Jean Jennings
• Betty Snyder
• Marlyn Wescoff
• Frances Bilas
• Ruth Lichterman
• Kay McNulty