EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was one of the earliest electronic computers, built by the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Along with ORDVAC, it was a successor to ENIAC, but unlike ENIAC it was binary rather than decimal and was designed from the outset to be a stored-program computer. John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, ENIAC's own inventors, proposed its construction in August 1945, and a contract to build it was signed in April 1946 with an initial budget of 100,000 dollars. EDVAC was delivered to the Ballistic Research Laboratory in 1949. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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SignificanceOne of the earliest stored-program computers and a direct successor to ENIAC, distinguished from it by a binary rather than decimal design, proposed by ENIAC's own inventors, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, in August 1945. 1 Connections
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J. Presper Eckert co-designed EDVAC at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering as the stored-program successor to ENIAC.
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John Mauchly co-designed EDVAC at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering as the stored-program successor to ENIAC.
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Preceded By
ENIAC, Systems EDVAC was designed at the Moore School as the stored-program successor to ENIAC, described in von Neumanns 1945 First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC.
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Unlike ENIAC, it was binary rather than decimal, and was designed to be a stored-program computer.
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