15 Sep
2015
15 Sep
'15
12:30 p.m.
It was converted to being "programmable" in 1948.
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Subject: Re: release dates of early microcomputer operating systems, incl.
Intel ISIS
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From: Dave G4UGM
although ENIAC first ran a program it was stored
as acoustic waves
I don't think ENIAC used acoustic delay storage? Perhaps what you're
thinking of is that in the original ENIAC usage, there was no 'program' as
now think of that term; the machine had to be
configured (via connecting
up
computing units with cables) for each separate
problem, i.e. more
'configurable' than 'programmable' (at least in the Turing machine
sense).
Hence the debate over whether it or the Baby was the first 'computer'.
Noel