Reprogramming ENIAC involved a hike (part 1)
dad
October 31, 2010
(Once the army agreed to fund ENIAC, Mauchly and Eckert worked around the clock, seven days a week, hoping to complete the machine in time t...
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The Zuse Z1 in its residential setting
dad
October 27, 2010
use's third machine, the Z3 , built in 1941, was probably the first operational, general-purpose, programmable (that is, software contro...
Monday, October 25, 2010
Two views of the code-breaking Colossus of Great Britain
dad
October 25, 2010
The Harvard Mark I, the Atanasoff-Berry computer, and the British Colossus all made important contributions. American and British comp...
Sunday, October 24, 2010
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer
dad
October 24, 2010
Another candidate for granddaddy of the modern computer was Colossus , built during World War II by Britain for the purpose of breaking the...
Saturday, October 23, 2010
The DEC PDP-12
dad
October 23, 2010
Sure looks "mini", huh? But we're getting ahead of our story. One of the earliest attempts to build an all-electronic (that...
Thursday, October 21, 2010
An integrated circuit
dad
October 21, 2010
The primary advantage of an integrated circuit is not that the transistors (switches) are miniscule (that's the secondary advantage), b...
