"The ENIAC" In Electrical Engineering, February 1948.

J.G. Brainerd an T.K. Sharpless.

Publication Date: 1948

About this Item

J.G. Brainerd an T.K. Sharpless. The ENIAC. In Electrical Engineering, February 1948, pp 163-176, in the issue of pp 119-214. In wrappers. Owner stamps on front cover. Crisp copy. This is extracted from a larger bound volume with remnants of the binding on the spine. GOOD copy for that. __+__ "Built in 1943-45 at the Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania for the War effort by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. but not delivered to the Army until just after the end of the war, the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. It was 150 feet wide with 20 banks of flashing lights and about 300 times faster than the Mark 1 at addition. The ENIAC was not a stored-program computer; it is "better described as a collection of electronic adding machines and other arithmetic units, which were originally controlled by a web of large electrical cables" (David Alan Grier, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Jul-Sep 2004, p.2). It was programmed by a combination of plugboard wiring and three "portable function tables".--Wiki.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: "The ENIAC" In Electrical Engineering, February 1948.
• Publication Date: 1948
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 2 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Engineering
  • Computing History