1 Dec
2014
1 Dec
'14
7:32 a.m.
From: William Donzelli
Building a complete ENIAC replica would indeed be
hard. If only exact
proper NOS parts were used, I might just say impossible.
One other component I didn't see listed: rotary switches. ENIAC used tons of
them, originally for inputting static data (think ROM :-), and later to hold
tables used when they converted it to a sorta-stored-program machine (think
uROM :-).
And what about the special plug wires (and the male and female connectors used
thereon) which were used to 'program' the machine for a given problem - are
those still available?
Noel