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Cool interview. He mentions building the Eniac in a 30 by 50 room on the first floor of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at Penn.

I worked for Penn after graduating from their CS department. I worked for the robotics lab, which was housed in the now-subdivided 30 by 50 room. In the entranceway of the suite was a chunk of the Eniac, still sitting where it had been developed 40 or so years earlier. You could just walk up and turn the dials.

They've since built a real enclosure for the thing, but it was very cool having a piece of history just sitting in the hallway.