Title
Computer Pioneers and Pioneer ComputersCatalog Number
102645565Type
Moving ImageDescription
Gordon Bell hosts this two-part program on the evolution of electronic computing from its pre-WWII origins through the development of the first commercial computers. His narration trraces the development of the stored program computer architecture which remains the foundation of today's computers. View Part 1 online at http://www.youtube.com/computerhistory#p/u/55/qundvme1Tik View Part 2 online at http://www.youtube.com/computerhistory#p/u/53/wsirYCAocZkIn part one, the builders of the first five machines (the Bell Labs Model 1, the Zuse Z1-3, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the Harvard Mark1, and the SSEC, tell their stories.
In part one, the builders of the first five machines, the Bell Labs Model 1, the Zuse Z1-3, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the Harvard , and the SSEC) tell their stories. Part two focuses on the ENIAC, and the three lines of machines descending from it: the Eckert-Mauchly EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC; Maurice Wilkes+ EDSAC ; and John Von Neumann+s IAS machines and their clones, the ILLIAC, MANIAC.
Date
1996Publisher
Computer History MuseumDuration
01:47:00Format
DVCAMSeries Title
Computer Pioneers and Pioneer ComputersCredit
Gift of Gordon BellLot Number
X3169.2005Related Records
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