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(mellow electronic music) - At the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, they were very very strong in computation. 'Cause there were engineers back then who were moving more toward not just how you do things based on what people did before, but, break new frontier. And as they did that, the mathematical complications became difficult to solve. So they needed a machine. So they decided, electrons are faster, we'll move 'em through these tubes, and we'll click 'em on and off. And we'll make a machine that would solve these equations. They created the worlds first all-electronic general-purpose digital computer. When the war started they were picked especially to do computations for the army for long guns and firing tables. - ENIAC was revolutionary in being the first large-scale general-purpose