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| Thread ID: 66193 | 2006-02-14 19:11:00 | Happy Birthday ENIAC | Tony (4941) | PC World Chat |
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| 430305 | 2006-02-14 19:11:00 | ENIAC, one of the first general purpose computers, is 60 years old. See here (news.zdnet.com) | Tony (4941) | ||
| 430306 | 2006-02-14 22:43:00 | "It was a monstrosity. It was rapidly overtaken by general purpose machines," thundered Jay Forrester, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and one of the leading computer architects of the last century. "There wasn't anything in it that survived into modern machines, except maybe electricity." | pctek (84) | ||
| 430307 | 2006-02-15 03:44:00 | No, it actually set some standards in computer hardware and softwatre development. It cost 8 times the budgeted amount. It took 5 times longer than planned to build. Ever after, large projects are delivered by the "2 out of 3" rule: "Do you want it on budget, on time, to work? Pick any two". |
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| 430308 | 2006-02-15 04:40:00 | Here (zdnet.com.com) is a video of ENIAC in action - all 28 tons of it. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 430309 | 2006-02-16 07:31:00 | Interesting but Colossus, developed by the British at Bletchley Park to break the German enciphered Teleprinter traffic is 62 years old this month. | tutaenui (1724) | ||
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