* [COFF] In memoriam: John Mauchly
@ 2019-01-07 20:30 dave
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We lost a co-inventor of ENIAC, John Mauchly, on this day in 1980. ENIAC
is claimed to be the "first general purpose electronic digital computer",
but I guess it comes down to a matter of definition[*], as every culture
likes to be the "first" (just ask the Penguins, for example); for
"computer" you could go all the way back to the Mk-I Antikythera (Hellenic
variation, from about the 100BC production run)...
[*]
Analogue/digital/hybrid
Mechanical/electrical/electronic/hybrid
General/special
Wired/programmable/Turing
Prototype/production
Harvard/Neumann/quantum
Etc...
-- Dave
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