The 20 accumulators that could store a ten digit signed number I suppose is 
ram. When my father worked on an Eniac in the 1960s he used punched cards for 
storage. I guess it was just an overblown calculator.

I attach a memo of computer usage from 1954,

John S

On 11 Feb 2016, at 22:38, David Forbes wrote:

> Amusingly, the ENIAC was not a stored-program machine, so it doesn't really 
> belong at the trunk, but was one of the roots under the ground. EDVAC was the 
> first American stored-program machine.

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