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A typical exhibit. The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. It filled a large room at the University of Pennsylvania and only pieces like this remain. It was conceived to calculate artillery firing tables but its first program was a study of the feasibility of the thermonuclear weapon.