A Japanese film crew visited the Moore building yesterday to film the world's first digital computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer -- also known as ENIAC. T.V. Asahi came to the University to get footage for a documentary they are filming about early computers in the United States. They are traveling around the country obtaining footage for their documentary. The film will air in July, but only in Japan. The crew toured for about three hours, under the watchful eye of ENIAC curator Paul Shaffer. Shaffer answered the crew's questions, mentioning that ENIAC was 1400 times faster than Harvard's IBM Mark One. And Shaffer said that ENIAC was truly revolutionary because it " proved that large scale vacuum tubed computers are practical or at least possible." He added that ENIAC really spawned the computer craze.
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