Title
From One John V. Atanasoff
Catalog Number
102622156
Type
Moving Image
Description
Documentary profile of computer pioneer John Atanasoff of ISU (interviewed), presented here as father of the modern digital electronic computer. Recounts through interview and dramatization events leading up to his pre-WWII revelation to combine separate processing and memory elements in a binary system with electronic components (Atanasoff-Berry Computer). Credits collaborator Clifford Berry (died 1963). Revolving drums, vacuum tube logic elements. NYT headline: "Machine Remembers." Shown driving home-built garden tractor. ENIAC project mentioned; Arthur Burks interviewed with wife Alice, who was ENIAC "programmer." John P. Dougan narrates. ZD.
Publisher
Iowa State University. Film Production Unit
Place of Publication
Ames, IA, US
Identifying Numbers
Deprecated CHM identification number |
F 22.83 |
Deprecated CHM identification number |
VT 352 |
Duration
00:10:30
Dimensions
6" cassette
Format
Betacam SP