John Lawson wrote:
> There exists a freeware ENIAC emulator for Wintel boxen... I have it on
> my old machine which is lying dormant in a closet here, so I don't have
> the URL handy, but Google is your friend in this instance.
> It might be retro-cool to try coding 'Hello World' on the ENIAC... one
> could recieve output on the TTY, or, if one were excruciatingly clever,
> cause it to scroll by on the Mercury Tank Register display CRT.
Are you sure you mean ENIAC? It had no mercury tanks. Also the ENIAC was
not a true programmable computer.
Perhaps you are thinking of EDSAC? An emulator for that can be found at
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/
-- HBP
Received on Thu Aug 23 2001 - 03:53:30 BST