ENIAC [Was: Re: Appropritate comic strip....]

From: Hans B Pufal <hansp_at_aconit.org>
Date: Thu Jan 10 11:53:30 2002

Matthew Sell wrote:

 
> Has anyone ever attempted to recreate all or part of the ENIAC? Maybe as
> part of a CS project or museum?


For the 50th aniversary some few years ago there was a projet to put
ENIAC on a chip:

http://www.ee.upenn.edu/~jan/eniacproj.html

AFAIK no one has tried to rebuild the orginal in physical form.

On a related topic, the original Manchester (England) machine
which ran its first program in 1948 was reconstructed from mainly period
components. The story is here:

http://www.computer50.org/mark1/index.html#baby

  -- hbp
Received on Thu Jan 10 2002 - 11:53:30 GMT

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