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... patent the ABC , as it was entitled to do under the terms of its contract with Atanasoff . It is uncertain why the school failed to nail down the patent . Atanasoff claims he and Berry submitted more than enough information for a pat ...
... patent the ABC , as it was entitled to do under the terms of its contract with Atanasoff . It is uncertain why the school failed to nail down the patent . Atanasoff claims he and Berry submitted more than enough information for a pat ...
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... patent rights . Contrary to what Mauchly had imagined when he first arrived at the Moore School , the university wanted patent rights to ENIAC and thought Eckert and Mauchly ought to relinquish them . When Eckert and Mauchly refused ...
... patent rights . Contrary to what Mauchly had imagined when he first arrived at the Moore School , the university wanted patent rights to ENIAC and thought Eckert and Mauchly ought to relinquish them . When Eckert and Mauchly refused ...
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... patent infringement over the use of equipment supposedly covered by the ENIAC patent , sued Sperry Rand right back for violating antitrust laws by try- ing to enforce a fraudulently obtained patent . What gave Honeywell the idea that the ...
... patent infringement over the use of equipment supposedly covered by the ENIAC patent , sued Sperry Rand right back for violating antitrust laws by try- ing to enforce a fraudulently obtained patent . What gave Honeywell the idea that the ...
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