ENIAC

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1945

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ENIAC was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. Other computers had some of these features, but ENIAC was the first to have them all. ENIAC was Turing-complete and able to solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming.

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Earlier and later events nearby

1. 1867Alaska Purchase
2. 1903Wright Flyer
3. 1929–1939Great Depression
4. 1945ENIACThis page
5. 1964Civil Rights Act of 1964
6. 1968Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
7. 2001September 11 attacks

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