The inspiration for the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or ENIAC, occurred in the early 1930's when Mauchly, long frustrated with the slow pace of traditional calculators, began thinking of building his own calculating machine. Calculators of the time took approximately ten seconds to complete a computation after the enter button was pressed. ... Many electronic calculators would be working simultaneously on parts of difficult calculations. ... It could perform 5,000 additions and 300 multiplications per second. ...

• Word Count: 2344
• Approx Pages: 9