Amusingly, the ENIAC was not a stored-program machine, so it doesn't really
belong at the trunk, but was one of the roots under the ground. EDVAC was the
first American stored-program machine.
A better computer to put at the trunk would be the Manchester Baby, as it was
the first functioning machine that actually had RAM from which instructions were
fetched, as do all modern computers other than tiny PIC-like things. The EDVAC
was the closest American thing, but it first ran a year later and didn't have
RAM, but shift register storage.
But this tree chart is American, so you get what you pay for.
On 2/11/2016 3:18 PM, Quixotic Nixotic wrote:
What all those neons mean on the front of an Eniac...
What you could do on an Eniac…
And how the rest are related…
John S
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