The Independent - London, June 23rd, 1995
In the 1940s J. Presper Eckert made three crucial contributions to the development of the computer. During the Second World War he was chief engineer for the construction of the Eniac, one of the first electronic computers. He was one of the key inventors of the stored program computer - the design on which the present-day computer industry is founded. And in 1946 he was a co-founder of the firm that produced the Univac, the world's first computer for business.
Born in Philadelphia in 1919, "Pres" Eckert was a natural electronics engineer. During the 1930s he cut his teeth on crystal sets, an...
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