4 Dec
2015
4 Dec
'15
7:33 p.m.
Hello!
We are also forgetting the contraption that Turing built. Of course
sadly at the end it was destroyed. Why? I don't know. But it has since
been rebuilt.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8(a)gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Ronald Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
I guess you’re going to have to qualify that. It’s
the oldest “surviving” (though it’s unclear what that means to a computer not running)
STORED PROGRAM machine.
The ENIAC, which by some standards is the first programmable digital computer still
exists at the Smithsonian. Some of my coworkers there were on the team that took it down
from BRL to the Smithsonian and actually tested it as operational when it was handed over
to the museum. I don’t think it’s ever been powered on since.
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