I read it last week and thought it was great. It brought to mind a talk
John Mauchly gave at a personal computer convention in Philadelphia in 1976.
I was in the audience and found him a pretty interesting guy. He devoted
most of his talk to BINAC -- I've got an audio tape of it somewhere, I'll
see it I can find it.
I noted with interest the references to Electronic Control Company and
Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation corporate papers. The Hagley Museum is
just around the corner from me; I'll have to pay them a visit.
The book's also spurred me to follow up on my family geneaology -- my
grandmother was an Eckert -- maybe I'm related!!
-- Tony Eros
Mid-Atlantic Computer History Museum
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From: Rodrigo Ventura <yoda_at_isr.ist.utl.pt>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
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Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 3:13 PM
Subject: ENIAC book
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> Hi. I've just finished reading the book "ENIAC" by Scott
> McCarthey, and loved it. Has anyone also read it? Any comments?
>
> Cheers,
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