ENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic computer. You can argue about “first computer” for years, as people have, but the term computer is not well enou

ENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic computer. You can argue about “first computer” for years, as people have, but the term computer is not well enough defined to have one answer. (And as if battered monster reached out from the grave, the ENIAC just slapped down the Manchester Baby. Recent research by Haigh, Crispen and Rope has revealed that the ENIAC, not the Baby, was the first computer to run a stored program.)