Invented by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert in August 1944 to calculate ballistic trajectories for proposed weapon designs.It costed 100K to make.It stands for electronic discrete variable automatic computer.
Contained almost 6,000 vacuum tubes, 12,000 diodes, consumed 56kW of power and weighed 17,300 pounds. Also, the first multipurpose computer.
Heavily influenced the Manchester Baby computer and other designs from Cambridge.
