> 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
> 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,
On 2017-Nov-10, at 9:35 AM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
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>> From: Brian L. Stuart [mailto:blstu...@bellsouth.net]
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>> ; Dave Wade
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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
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> -Original Message-
> From: Brian L. Stuart [mailto:blstu...@bellsouth.net]
> Sent: 10 November 2017 15:45
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> On Fri, 11/10/17, Dave
On 11/9/17 6:29 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
> @Al: you may push it to bitsavers
done
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
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/nov/08/geoff-tootill-obituary
Dave Wade
G4UGM & EA7KAE