Programming in 1946 - ENIAC's Birthday

[dave.g4ugm at gmail.com]

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> From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Paul Koning via
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> Sent: 15 February 2021 15:17
> To: Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>; cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Programming in 1946 - ENIAC's Birthday
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> > 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:
> >>
> >> 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 -
> >
> > 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.
> 

I think it corresponds more to the "Havard" architecture, but for a machine
with "unlimited" memory the two architectures can be shown to be equivalent,
in terms of computing capability.


> 	paul
> 

Dave
G4UGM