Nov 30, 2022
The female programmers of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) - the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. ENIAC could be programmed to perform complex sequences of operations, including loops, branches, and subroutines. However, instead of the stored-program computers that exist today, ENIAC was just a large collection of arithmetic machines, which originally had programs set up into the machine by a combination of plugboard wiring and three portable function tables (containing 1,200 ten-way switches each).
