> The book I cited above covers the inventors and builders of ABC, ENIAC, >Colossus, Z1 etc. It is a very interesting book. > Tim Laing
J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, designers of ENIAC really had a run of bad luck. I read book on ENIAC. They followed that up with the UNIVAC, for commercial sales. Honeywell cited the ABC, to void Sperry's patents. Sperry made the UNIVAC line. They also worked on EDVAC, but von Neumann got the credit for its architecture, and all the processors that have been built since. Then there's the mystery of Colossus. It was kept top secret, until the 70s. They built either 10 or 11 them, during WWII. They recently built a new one from secondary documentation, as the actual schematics & blueprints had been destroyed for security reasons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff-Berry_Computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDVAC As for personal history, my mother, and several other relatives, worked for Burroughs Electrodata division, in Pasadena, California. Shortly after the merger with Sperry, to from Unisys, they closed the Pasadena plant. Ironically, that same building was occupied by Earthlink during the height of the dot-com boom: http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1956 They too abandoned it after their merger with Mindspring. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
