9 Mar
2023
9 Mar
'23
6:16 a.m.
On Mar 8, 2023, at 10:11 PM, Brian L. Stuart via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
...
If you all are interested a different take on the origins of
personal computing, here's a recording I made for use during
the pandemic of a talk that I give every year to our freshmen
at Drexel University.
https://1513041.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Whence+Came+the+Personal+Compu…
If you'd like to go back even farther, here's a page I have
on the ENIAC. At the bottom are links to a number of talks
I've given on the subject:
http://cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/eniac/
On that sort of history: there's a neat document in the online archives of CWI in
Amsterdam, a course syllabus for a course on computer construction given by prof. van
Wijngaarden in February of 1948. I just completed an English translation of it, and
I'm wondering if there might be a good home for that somewhere (once I proofread it).
From the introduction: "The field is new. The Eniac is at the moment the only working
machine, while one of these days the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator from the
I.B.M. will be demonstrated."
paul