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In 2025, computer historians celebrated the 80th anniversary of the first US data center. In the mid 1940s, the US military needed an automated system to increase artillery accuracy. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), built at the University of Pennsylvania, weighed 60,000 lbs and was the size of a living room. It included all the high tech gizmos of that period – vacuum tubes, relay switches, diodes.
