What is ENIAC and what was it designed to do?

The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator & Computer) is considered to be the first digital computer that was built in the early 1940s in USA.

At first it was used to calculate artillary firing tables for US Army Ballistic Research Labroratory.

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