Re: Computing Pioneer Dies

2017-11-10 Thread Jason T via cctalk
> I'm harly a member of the "ENIAC/Mauchlyite crowd" (in fact, I used to not > have a good impression of them at all), but I thought Haigh et al made a > pretty good case. Here's Prof. Haigh speaking on ENIAC at VCFMW last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O0pKPzJjEY

Re: Computing Pioneer Dies

2017-11-10 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Dave Wade > ENIAC had been configured in stored program mode earlier in the year > and had run a program stored in the function switches, e.g. ROM > ... > Despite the fact that when running stored programs ENIAC's parallel > processing features were not available,

Re: Computing Pioneer Dies

2017-11-10 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2017-Nov-10, at 9:35 AM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Brian L. Stuart [mailto:blstu...@bellsouth.net] >> Sent: 10 November 2017 15:45 >> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts >> ; Dave Wade >>

Re: Computing Pioneer Dies

2017-11-10 Thread Aaron Jackson via cctalk
A few years back I wanted to study at Manchester uni, primarily so I could apply to be a demonstrator for the SSEM. Sad news. Dave Wade via cctalk writes: > https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/nov/08/geoff-tootill-obituary > > > > Dave Wade > > G4UGM & EA7KAE > > -- Aaron Jackson

RE: Computing Pioneer Dies

2017-11-10 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: Brian L. Stuart [mailto:blstu...@bellsouth.net] > Sent: 10 November 2017 15:45 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > ; Dave Wade > Subject: Re: Computing Pioneer Dies > > On Fri, 11/10/17, Dave

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2017-11-10 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
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Re: Computing Pioneer Dies

2017-11-10 Thread Brian L. Stuart via cctalk
On Fri, 11/10/17, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote: > https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/nov/08/geoff-tootill-obituary This raises the question, is there anyone still alive from those first-generation projects? I had guessed that at age 101, Harry Husky was the last one

Computing Pioneer Dies

2017-11-10 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/nov/08/geoff-tootill-obituary Dave Wade G4UGM & EA7KAE