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When ENIAC was announced in 1946 it was heralded in the press as a " Giant Brain ".

It boasted speeds one thousand times faster than electro-mechanical machines, a leap in computing power that no single machine has since matched.

This mathematical power, coupled with general-purpose programmability, excited scientists and industrialists.

The inventors promoted the spread of these new ideas by conducting a series of lectures on computer architecture.