> On Mar 8, 2023, at 10:11 PM, Brian L. Stuart via cctalk
> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> ...
> If you all are interested a different take on the origins of
> personal computing, here's a recording I made for use during
> the pandemic of a talk that I give every year to our freshmen
> at Drexel University.
>
> https://1513041.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Whence+Came+the+Personal+Computer/1_dq6va75g
>
>
> If you'd like to go back even farther, here's a page I have
> on the ENIAC. At the bottom are links to a number of talks
> I've given on the subject:
>
> http://cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/eniac/
On that sort of history: there's a neat document in the online archives of CWI
in Amsterdam, a course syllabus for a course on computer construction given by
prof. van Wijngaarden in February of 1948. I just completed an English
translation of it, and I'm wondering if there might be a good home for that
somewhere (once I proofread it).
From the introduction: "The field is new. The Eniac is at the moment the only
working machine, while one of these days the Selective Sequence Electronic
Calculator from the I.B.M. will be demonstrated."
paul
