ENIAC was one of the first computers to use electronic circuits, which made for lightning-fast calculations. Former chairman of IBM, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., at first saw no use for it. He said, ‘I reacted to ENIAC the way some people probably reacted to the Wright brothers’ airplane. It didn’t move me at all…I couldn’t see this gigantic, costly, unreliable device as a piece of business equipment.’ A few weeks later, he and his father wandered into a research office at IBM and saw an engineer with a high-speed punch-card machine hooked up to a black box. When asked what (read more…)
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