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... BINAC . It seemed their financial troubles were over , but in fact they were just beginning . BINAC exceeded its budget , partly because Eckert and Mauchly underestimated the cost of building the computer . Ac- cording to company ...
... BINAC . It seemed their financial troubles were over , but in fact they were just beginning . BINAC exceeded its budget , partly because Eckert and Mauchly underestimated the cost of building the computer . Ac- cording to company ...
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... BINAC came to almost $ 300,000 . Eckert and Mauchly tried to get more money out of Northrop but failed . The Air Force , which ultimately was paying for the Snark's development , pointed out that government regulations required them to ...
... BINAC came to almost $ 300,000 . Eckert and Mauchly tried to get more money out of Northrop but failed . The Air Force , which ultimately was paying for the Snark's development , pointed out that government regulations required them to ...
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... BINAC was intended as a compact airborne computer for military use . It utilized mercury delay storage lines and had approximately the dimensions of a file cabinet . Numerous setbacks plagued the project , and BINAC was never put to its ...
... BINAC was intended as a compact airborne computer for military use . It utilized mercury delay storage lines and had approximately the dimensions of a file cabinet . Numerous setbacks plagued the project , and BINAC was never put to its ...
Contents
Preface | 11 |
George Stibitz and the Bell Computers | 33 |
The Harvard Mark I and the ZSeries | 53 |
Copyright | |
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Aberdeen analog arithmetic Atanasoff and Berry Babbage Babbage's Bell Labs BINAC binary Bletchley Park Bombe Brainerd British building built Bush calculating machines called Charles Babbage chine ciphers circuits codebreaking Colossus components computer pioneers computing machines condensers delay storage lines described Description and Accomplishments desktop calculator device differential analyzer digital computer Eckert and Mauchly EDVAC electric electromechanical electronic computer engineers ENIAC Enigma George Stibitz German Goldstine hardware Harvard Heath Robinson helped History of Computing Howard Aiken IAS computer idea input invention Iowa John Mauchly JOHNNIAC Kelvin Langley later looked Mark math mathematician mathematics Mauchly's mechanical memory mercury delay messages Model Moore School Neumann Norbert Wiener number sieves numbers once operation patent problem punched puters relays reliable rotors SEAC solve SSEC stored-program concept switches tape tion told Turing Turing's University vacuum tubes Watson wheels Williams tube wires Zuse Zuse's