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ENIAC in action : making and remaking the modern computer / Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestley, and Crispin Rope.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haigh, Thomas, 1972- author.
- Priestley, Mark (Peter Mark), author.
- Rope, Crispin, author.
- Series:
- History of computing
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- ENIAC (Computer)--History.
- ENIAC (Computer).
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2016]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The history of the first programmable electronic computer, from its conception, construction, and use to its afterlife as a part of computing folklore.
- Contents:
- 1 Imagining ENIAC 17
- 2 Structuring ENIAC 35
- 3 Bringing ENIAC to Life 59
- 4 Putting ENIAC to Work 85
- 5 ENIAC Arrives at the Ballistic Research Lab 111
- 6 EDVAC and the First Draft 129
- 7 Converting ENIAC 153
- 8 ENIAC Goes to Monte Carlo 173
- 9 ENIAC Tries Its Luck 193
- 10 ENIAC Settles Down to Work 207
- 11 ENIAC and Its Contemporaries Meet the "Stored Program Concept" 231
- 12 Remembering ENIAC 259.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262334426
- 0262334429
- 9780262334419
- 0262334410
- OCLC:
- 959952154
- Publisher Number:
- 40025877808
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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