On Fri, 3 May 2013 21:13:56 -0500, J. Leslie Turriff wrote:
>On 2013-05-03 18:24:07 Phil Smith wrote:
>> http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/508-mainframe-computer-history.html
>
> I didn't realize that Eniac was that big... 49-ft high cabinets! Wow!
>
And:
Also, in a backward step from the ABC computer, the ENIAC
worked with decimal and not binary numbers.
We're still stepping backwards.
-- gil
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