Two views of the code-breaking Colossus of Great Britain
Hasitha Helappriya
October 25, 2010
The Harvard Mark I, the Atanasoff-Berry computer, and the British Colossus all made important contributions. American and British comp...
Monday, October 25, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer
Hasitha Helappriya
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
Hasitha Helappriya
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
Hasitha Helappriya
October 21, 2010
The primary advantage of an integrated circuit is not that the transistors (switches) are miniscule (that's the secondary advantage), b...
