ENIAC, the triumphs and tragedies of the world's first computer / Scott McCartney.
ENIAC, the triumphs and tragedies of the world's first computer / Scott McCartney.
ENIAC, the triumphs and tragedies of the world's first computer / Scott McCartney.
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New York : Walker, 1999.
Date
1999.
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T0370689
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English
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viii, 262 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents
Introduction: The Thinking Man's Game -- Ch. 1. The Ancestors -- Ch. 2. A Kid and a Dreamer -- Ch. 3. Crunched by Numbers -- Ch. 4. Getting Started -- Ch. 5. Five Times One Thousand -- Ch. 6. Whose Machine Was It, Anyway? -- Ch. 7. Out on Their Own -- Ch. 8. Whose Idea Was It, Anyway? -- Epilogue: S...
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New York : Walker, 1999.
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New York (State)
Date Published
1999.
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In the wake of their triumph, Mauchly and Eckert would be shadowed by personal tragedies and professional setbacks that are as absorbing as their invention is fascinating. They built the famous UNIVAC machine and formed the world's first computer company, only to be outflanked and outfinanced by IBM and other emerging competitors. They filed a pate...
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ENIAC, the triumphs and tragedies of the world's first computer / Scott McCartney.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-251) and index.
Transferred from N004.1/4.
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T0370689
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0802713483
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004.1
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991011652389702626
