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Subject: RE: Computing Pioneer Dies
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Subject: Re: Computing Pioneer Dies
> From: Brent Hilpert
> What abou
> From: Evan Koblentz
> That's the dumbest thing I read today.
And that helped... how?
Noel
It's just another attempt to make an historical claim for the ENIAC, this time
trying to steal the light away from the Manchester Baby.
That's the dumbest thing I read today.
> From: Brent Hilpert
> What about that little issue of writeable program storage?
Just to clarify my understanding of your position, is a system with a CPU
chip (say one of the 68K models) with only ROM not a 'stored program machine'?
Noel
PS: You really should look at the book
On 2017-Nov-10, at 12:37 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
> https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/nov/08/geoff-tootill-obituary
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>>> I should point out there is a technical error in the Guardian. The Baby was
>>> the first Electronically Stored Program in what today we would call RAM.
>>> ENIAC
Can ya blame him? Back in his day 2s were *real* 2s.. bigger and tougher. You
try and add 'em up, assuming they'd stay still long enough and stop wrastlin'
with ya and who knows how big they'd be.
Original message From: Evan Koblentz via cctalk
My own father does this and it dr
Fascinating talk
Marc
On Nov 10, 2017, at 8:16 PM, Jason T via cctalk wrote:
>> I'm harly a member of the "ENIAC/Mauchlyite crowd" (in fact, I used to not
>> have a good impression of them at all), but I thought Haigh et al made a
>> pretty good case.
>
> Here's Prof. Haigh speaking on ENIAC at
Heh ... so it begins on cctalk. Just like in modern politics, or
science, etc., people have opinions which they think override facts. :)
My own father does this and it drives me crazy. I'll say, "2+2=4" and
he'll say, "I believe it's 5" ... DAD IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU
FRIGGING BELIEVE, 2 PL
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/nov/08/geoff-tootill-obituary
I should point out there is a technical error in the Guardian. The Baby was the first
Electronically Stored Program in what today we would call RAM. ENIAC had been configured
in stored program mode earlier in the year and ha
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> > I'm harl
> I'm harly a member of the "ENIAC/Mauchlyite crowd" (in fact, I used to not
> have a good impression of them at all), but I thought Haigh et al made a
> pretty good case.
Here's Prof. Haigh speaking on ENIAC at VCFMW last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O0pKPzJjEY
> From: Dave Wade
> ENIAC had been configured in stored program mode earlier in the year
> and had run a program stored in the function switches, e.g. ROM
> ...
> Despite the fact that when running stored programs ENIAC's parallel
> processing features were not available, i
On 2017-Nov-10, at 9:35 AM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
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>> From: Brian L. Stuart [mailto:blstu...@bellsouth.net]
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A few years back I wanted to study at Manchester uni, primarily so I
could apply to be a demonstrator for the SSEM.
Sad news.
Dave Wade via cctalk writes:
> https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/nov/08/geoff-tootill-obituary
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> On Fri, 11/10/17, Dave Wade via cct
On Fri, 11/10/17, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
> https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/nov/08/geoff-tootill-obituary
This raises the question, is there anyone still alive from those
first-generation projects? I had guessed that at age 101, Harry
Husky was the last one still alive when he passe
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/nov/08/geoff-tootill-obituary
Dave Wade
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