Programming in 1946 - ENIAC's Birthday

[Paul Koning]

> On Feb 15, 2021, at 10:13 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> On Feb 15, 2021, at 7:23 AM, osi.superboard via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> 75 years ago, February 15, 1946
>> The ENIAC, presented to the public in 1946, is - depending on the definition - the first programmable digital computer in the world. Its first programmers were primarily women: so-called refrigerator ladies (seen here: Gloria Ruth Gordon and Ester Gerston) spent hours flipping switches and swapping cable connections - the first computer input devices -
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> Not so much input devices as rather program storage devices.  ENIAC wasn't a stored-program machine. 

That was confusing.  I meant that ENIAC wasn't a Von Neumann machine -- the program isn't stored in its data read/write memory.

	paul