ISBN: 9780802713483 - eniac: the triumphs and tragedies of the world's first computer (17 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. The true father of the modern computer was not John von Neumann, as he is generally credited. That honor belongs to the two men, John Mauchly and Presper Eckert, who built the world's first programmable computer: the legendary ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer). Their three-year race to create the ENIAC is a compelling tale of brilliance and misfortune that has never been told before. Mauchly and Eckert developed a revolutionary vision: to make electricity think. Funded by the US Army, the team they led constructed a behemoth the size of a three-bedroom apartment. It weighed thirty tons, cost nearly half a million dollars--plus $650 an hour to run--and had eighteen thousand vacuum tubes with miles of wiring. But in 1945, the ENIAC was the cutting edge in technology and a herald of the digital age to come, blazing a trail to the next generation of computers that quickly followed. Based on original interviews with surviving participants and the first study of Mauchly and Eckert's personal papers, ENIAC is a dramatic human story and a vital contribution to the history of technology that restores to the two inventors the legacy they deserve. …

Zustand: Good. The true father of the modern computer was not John von Neumann, as he is generally credited. That honor belongs to the two men, John Mauchly and Presper Eckert, who built the world's first programmable computer: the legendary ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer). Their three-year race to create the ENIAC is a compelling tale of brilliance and misfortune that has never been told before. Mauchly and Eckert developed a revolutionary vision: to make electricity think. Funded by the US Army, the team they led constructed a behemoth the size of a three-bedroom apartment. It weighed thirty tons, cost nearly half a million dollars--plus $650 an hour to run--and had eighteen thousand vacuum tubes with miles of wiring. But in 1945, the ENIAC was the cutting edge in technology and a herald of the digital age to come, blazing a trail to the next generation of computers that quickly followed. Based on original interviews with surviving participants and the first study of Mauchly and Eckert's personal papers, ENIAC is a dramatic human story and a vital contribution to the history of technology that restores to the two inventors the legacy they deserve. …

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Hardcover. Reprint. Second printing. viii, 262 p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. In this historical analysis, McCartney tells the story of the first computer, from its humble beginnings as a wartime number cruncher to the revolution it began. During World War II, John Mauchly and Presper Eckert invented ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) as a replacement for the handheld calculators that determined where artillery shells would land. The author asserts that these inventors should receive credit for their contribution to the computing field. Good in very good dust jacket. Slightly cocked.…

, Hardcover/Pappeinband. Zustand: Gut. Auflage: First Printing. 255 S. Fresh and clean hardcover copy in good condition with original dustjacket. Frisches und sauberes Hardcover-Exemplar in gutem Zustand mit Original-Schutzumschlag. Contents: Introduction - The Thinking Man's Game - 1. The Ancestors - 2. A Kid and a Dreamer - 3. Crunched by Numbers - 4. Getting Started - 5. Five Times One Thousand - 6. Whose Machine Was It, Anyway? - 7. Out on Their Own - 8. Whose Idea Was It, Anyway? - Epilogue: So Much Has Been Taken Away ISBN 9780802713483 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 428.…