ENIAC panels go on display at Oklahoma museum
We keep up with history of events through the calendar, marking special days: Amelia Earhart's birthday, the collapse of the Berlin Wall; the assassination of JFK. Another path is through narrative. An eye-catcher from Gizmodo was "How Ross Perot saved the world's first electronic computer"— or, from Wired, "How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap." In 2006, Ross Perot said that his Plano, Texas, headquarters should have relics from computing history. He was, after all, the man behind Austin-based Perot Systems, the well-known IT services provider. Perot's staff sought to acquire a chunk of ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer. (ENIAC, said Adam Clark Estes in Gizmodo, is to computing history what the Magna Carta is to legal history or, what the Lawton Constitution calls "The granddaddy of all computers.") ENIAC is regarded as the first true computer and it was refurbished.