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One day last week McNulty (now the widowed Mrs. John Mauchly), Eckert and 500 computer enthusiasts gathered at a "black-tie optional and hackerwear essential" party at Boston's Computer Museum to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the dedication of the first all-electronic digital computer. On that day in...
Other computing machines of that era solved mathematical problems in one of two ways. Either they estimated the solutions, using mechanical analog devices like slide rules and differential gears, or they computed them digitally, using the on-off action of slow-moving electromagnetic telephone switches. ENIAC, by contrast, was the...
ENIAC was decommissioned in 1955, having churned out military and scientific calculations for nearly a decade. Today its cabinet-size modules are scattered among several museums and institu tions. Four remain at the Moore School, gathering dust and cobwebs in a foyer off the old building's main hallway. Nearby...
With everything from Gandhi to Fly Fishing for Trout available for the home VCR, it is not surprising that video companies also have something for the opera lover. But while filmmakers have long since perfected the art of adapting plays and musicals to their medium, opera on film or videotape...
IBM's chief rival is Ethernet, a system first devised eleven years ago by Xerox and adopted by such companies as Digital Equipment and Intel. Ethernet already has 30,000 users and costs only about $500 per connection, compared with the $800 that IBM is expected to cost. Another competitor...