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
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