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 68 years ago on October 2, 1955, the ENIAC computer was officially retired after 11 years of service.

Unveiled in 1946, it ran at 5,000 operations per second, a thousand times faster than its peers, using plug boards, switches, and punch cards. 

ENIAC occupied 1,000 square feet of space and played crucial roles in scientific calculations

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