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On February 1, 1946, reporters were given the opportunity to observe the first public trial of a new device that promised to do the work of a year in a week. It was called ENIAC, the world’s first electronic computer, and the somewhat befuddled newsmen had it explained to them as the brainchild of John Mauchly (1907-1980) and J. Presper Eckert (1919-1995), but what they weren’t told was that the only reason it was functioning at all for them on that day was due to the program