Engineer Harry Huskey, who helped build many of the first ever computers, has died aged 101.Dr Huskey was a key member of the team that built the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (Eniac) whoch first ran in February 1946.Eniac is widely considered to be one of the first electronic, general purpose, programmable computers.Dr Huskey also helped complete work on the Ace – the Automatic Computing Engine – designed by Alan Turing.Founding fatherThe Eniac was built at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1940s and, once complete, was more than 100ft (30m) long, weighed 30 tonnes, used 18,000 valves and 1,500 relays. Programming the massive machine to do different computational tasks involved rewiring its various units. Eniac was built to calculate the trajectory of shells for the US army.
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