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31/08/2020 6:31 am
A little computer history,
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Born on August 30, 1907- US computer engineer John Mauchly who co-designed the first general purpose digital computer, ENIAC, with J. Presper Eckert. ENIAC was completed in 1945 and originally designed to calculate artillery trajectories for the US Army. The computer utilized vacuum tubes and filled an entire wall but could calculate trajectories in 30 seconds that would take human being 20 hours to complete with a pen and paper. ENIAC is the forerunner of modern computers.
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31/08/2020 8:42 am
So these are the guys responsible for all my computer frustration and headaches!
31/08/2020 9:22 pm
thanks Dick, here in Melbourne we also had one of the first operable computers.
One of the developers was Dr Trevor Pearcey. An amazing forward thinker.
In a 1948 paper, published in the Australian Journal of Science, he envisaged using a digital electronic computer for providing information over a national telecommunications network:
It is not inconceivable that an automatic encyclopedic service operated through the national teleprinter or telephone system, will one day exist.
https://pearcey.org.au/dr-trevor-pearcey/