J.
Presper Eckert & John Mauchly
John
Mauchly (1907-1980) & J. Presper Eckert (1919-1995)
Featured
Story ENIAC ENIAC
1: John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly 20,000 vacuum tubes later... our
own in-depth feature. The ENIAC I (Electrical
Numerical
Integrator
And
Calculator)
was developed by John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert in 1946.
Reference
Material on ENIAC John
Maunchly : Development of the ENIAC Computer An exhibition in the Department
of Special Collections at Van Pelt Library presented online in a several-part
feature. Maunchly: The Computer and
the Skateboard
A film about the life of John Maunchly directed by Paul David - site includes
video clips of Maunchly speaking.
Interview
J. Presper Eckert An interview conducted at the "Division
of Computers, Information & Society" at the National Museum of American
History, Smithsonian Institution.
John
Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
are the scientists credited with the invention of the Electronic Numerical
Integrator And Computer (ENIAC), the first general-purpose electronic digital
computer, completed in 1946.
Guess
Who's The ENIAC PBS hosts this educational guessing
game.
The
ENIAC Virtual Museum The ENIAC museum is housed at the
School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania.
Jean Bartik First ENIAC computer programmer.
Featured
Story UNIVAC The
UNIVAC Computer The Universal Automatic Computer
or UNIVAC was another computer milestone achieved by Dr. J. Presper Eckert
and Dr. John W. Mauchly.
Reference
Material on UNIVAC Unisys
History Newsletter The Unisys History Newsletter -
written and published by George Gray, a systems programmer for the State
of Georgia Department of Administrative Services. These six articles cover
the history and technical data of the UNIVAC.
The
Paul Revere of Computers An excellent essay on the business
history of the UNIVAC - by K. Ryan Weston.
Birthplace
of the World's First Business Computer Remington Rand was a predecessor
of Unisys Corporation. In 1950, the Remington Rand Corporation bought the
Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and changed the name to the Univac
Division of Remington Rand. Their research resulted in the UNIVAC
(Universal Automatic Computer), an important forerunner of today's computers.
The
UNIVAC Flow Chart Technical
and Historical Information UNIVAC Picture of the UNIVAC computer.
Penn
Library Collection A short illustrated essay on Eckert,
Mauchly and the UNIVAC.
EDVAC In August
1944, John Mauchly and J Presper Eckert proposed
the building of a new machine called the electronic discrete variable automatic
computer or EDVAC.
EDVAC EDVAC was
the first internally stored program computer to be built, a major improvement
over the ENIAC.
EDVAC
Specs Electronic
Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
The
EDVAC Design EDVAC EDVAC (Electronic
Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was to be a vast improvement upon
ENIAC.
The
First Stored Program Computer -- EDVAC Related
Innovations History
of Computers
John
Mauchly (1907-1980) & J. Presper Eckert (1919-1995)
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