Happy Valentine`s Day Everybody!

On this day, 60 years ago in 1946 the very first electronic computer saw the light of day for the first time at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, ENIAC. It took two people three years to build and weighed 30.000 kg. Six women was hired as programmers and it used electricity like a small village.

But the term personal computer as we are familiar with today did not appear public before 1962 in an article in the New York Times

-New York Times article reporting John W. Mauchly's vision of future computing spoken to a meeting of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers that previous day. Mauchly told the gathering, "There is no reason to suppose the average boy or girl cannot be master of a personal computer."

Source:Wikipedia

In Norway the first computer of this kind arrived in 1951 and was called NUSSE. It was a bit smaller than the ENIAC computer. By 1964, twelve computers were in use in Norway and 16 more had been ordered.

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And as my Valentine`s Day surprise gift to all of you from me, I bring you some photos from the last years event of Gumball 3000 in London...