The electronic computer was born in 1943 at University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering and was called the Electrronic Numerical Integrator And Computor (ENIAC). It was meant to help to win worldwar II. The huge, error prone machine was completed in 1947. It came too late to win the war. Instead it was put to work on the infamous Manhattan Project to help develop the first hydrogen bomb. More Info.

The Eniac 1 was programmed in the machine itself by pulling levers and pushing switches, representing ones and zeros. The work was done by six talented ladies. One of them, Kathleen, was the wife of one of the inventing engineers of the Eniac: John W. Mauchly.

Remington Rand's Univac (UNIVersal Automatic Computer) was the first commercial electronic computer. Most people had no idea what a computer was in those days and refered to it as the 'electronic brain'. Walter Cronkite was the first journalist who had a live interview with this electronic brain.

Colossus was the worlds first programmable electronic binary computer. The brainchild of Tommy Flowers, Colossus was used at Bletchley Park by codebreakers in 1944. The machine succeeded in breaking the 'unbreakable' German Enigma code, used by the nazis to send messages to U-boats in the Atantic.

The amazing evolution of the computer beginning with an ancient Greek calculating device via Charles Babbage and up all the way to het modern personal computer. The most turbulent development of the computer took place during the last thirty years.

"Daisy Bell" was composed by Harry Dacre in 1892. In 1961, the IBM 7094 became the first computer to sing, singing the song Daisy Bell. Vocals were programmed by John Kelly and Carol Lockbaum and the accompaniment was programmed by Max Mathews. This performance was the inspiration for a similar scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey.