Philadelphia’s a city known for its firsts: the first free library system, the first zoo and even first residential street in America were started here.

But if it’s up to longtime tech exec Jim Scherrer, we’d be talking more about one of Philly’s other firsts — the first computer.

Scherrer wants more Philadelphians to know that the ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, began as a secret project at the University of Pennsylvania, funded by the Army, in 1943. Parts of the machine remain at Penn’s Moore School today.

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