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Språk: Engelska
Inläsare: Adams Morgan
Utgivningsdatum: 2012-02-07
Förlag: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 9781481578301

ENIAC Ljudbok

Name: ENIAC
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Author: Scott McCartney
ISBN: 9781481578301

The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer

av Scott McCartney

Ljudbok, Engelska, 2012-02-07

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The true father of the modern computer was not John von Neumann, as he is generally credited. That honor belongs to the two men, John Mauchly and Presper Eckert, who built the world's first programmable computer: the legendary ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer).Their three-year race to create the ENIAC is a compelling tale of brilliance and misfortune that has never been told before.Mauchly and Eckert developed a revolutionary vision: to make electricity "think." Funded by the US Army, the team they led constructed a behemoth the size of a three-bedroom apartment. It weighed thirty tons, cost nearly half a million dollars-plus $650 an hour to run-and had eighteen thousand vacuum tubes with miles of wiring. But in 1945, the ENIAC was the cutting edge in technology and a herald of the digital age to come,blazing a trail to the next generation of computers that quickly followed.Based on original interviews with surviving participants and the first study of Mauchly and Eckert's personal papers,ENIACis a dramatic human story and a vital contribution to the history of technology that restores to the two inventors the legacy they deserve.

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