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ENIAC: One of the first computers turns 60

ENIAC: One of the first computers turns 60happy b-dayhappy birthday. hope you enjoy it

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, ENIAC, computer

Discussion threads 2006-02-13

ENIAC: First computer makes history

ENIAC: First computer makes historyIf only my XP box worked that well!*sigh*ABACUS Makes Mind Stronger.ABACUS is simple Counting Frame, Where YOU DO mechanical operations from your OWN minds trained method, counting up result at end. It wasn't until early 1960s' that computing machine could calculate faster than ABACUS. ABACUS operator...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, ENIAC, computer, Abacus

Discussion threads 2006-02-13

ENIAC: One of the first computers turns 60

News.com has a package commemorating the 60th anniversary of ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first electronic computer that could handle large scale calculations. The 28-ton device, with nearly 18,000 vacuum tubes, could crank 5,000 addition problems in a second, and was used on projects relating to hydrogen bomb...

Tags: computer, second.Fine-tuning ENIAC

Blog posts 2006-02-13

A computer pioneer flashes back to the '40s.

ENIAC inventor John Mauchly tells all.Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC, first unveiled the ENIAC at University of Pennsylvania in 1946. Here are excerpts from Blastoffmedia's 98-minute documentary, "The Computer and the Skateboard."

Tags: ENIAC, John Mauchly

Videos 2006-02-13

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To the Moon: The Integrators

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...

Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Nanowires, nanoribbons and 'graphane' among materials that'll revolutionize computers

Architects of the next generation of computers are developing a variety of nanostructures to meet the demand for increasingly smaller features for semiconductors, microprocessors, and other components. These tiny building blocks are quite extraordinary-some even self-assemble. And they'll help overcome many of the limitations of today's microelectronics...

Tags: Nanotube, Carbon Nanotube, Computer, Chip, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-24

(Images: Birth of the first computer)

(Images: Birth of the first computer)RE: Birth of the first computerPicture 6, the one with Goldmine and Eckert holding that chassis segment, may possibly be holding the [b]first blade server.[/b]I still find it hard to believe that the ENIAC was operated with [b]VACUUM TUBES,[/b] yet the 6 years old dell...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Blade servers, Utility computing, Servers, first computer, computer

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

Intel World Mural project - just what will the next 40 years bring?

Intel is turning 40 and while most of us by fast cars, take up motorcycling, or go bungee-jumping to deal with our mid-life crises, Intel asked 500 kids in 21 countries what they expected the next 40 years of computing to bring us. It's actually a great...

Tags: Computing, Computer, Intel Corp., Kid, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Boron buckyballs are coming

Boron buckyballs are comingBoron BuckyballsTHis could be the beginning of the technology needed to advance the research into effective methods of containing nuclear waste. Boron is quite effective as a neutron sponge, it's structure absorbs those extra neutrons generated in a reactor core and could be effective in surrounding...

Tags: Semiconductors, reactor, NanoApex, nanotechnology, Boron, carbon, nuclear waste

Discussion threads 2007-04-24

Windows XP update delayed

Windows XP update delayedWindows XP update delayedMicrosoft didn't have much choice in pushing the delay back. Its better that they work on one product at a time and get it right the first time. In this case they had to finish up Vista so customers could easily migrate...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-19

IBM's Power6 gets help with math, multimedia

IBM's Power6 gets help with math, multimediaCan't count to 10.It only counts to 9 ... 0 to 9, not 1 to 10. :) Still, it's an interesting way to go with processors.here comes Skynet!if a computer can do 2+(2*3-10/2.5)/2 without a binary conversion, then it's not much longer...

Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, multimedia, IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., processor, chip

Discussion threads 2006-10-10

Most open source software is better

Most open source software is betterdata should confirm that end-user target determines quality. of coursean aerospace product would be high quality, whether proprietary or not.but what about games or video or music or office productivity software that can never account for the permutations of user ineptitude?we have seen proprietary systems...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, open-source software, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, software, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-09

Wary of ethanol buzz

Wary of ethanol buzzDirect solar.. US lower 48 average 4.6kWh/m^2/day..Is plenty enough to run an industrialized society. (If you don't waste it needlessly.) Note: You would quickly freeze solid if not for the SUN and it's solar radiation. Ethanol is very inefficient use of solar energy. Biomass is roughly...

Tags: Government, Ethanol, Biomass

Discussion threads 2006-06-15

Images: Birth of the first computer

Images: Birth of the first computerWhere we also got the term "Bug"The term "bug" in programming - and what we know as debugging today - I believe came from the ENIAC. Grace M. Hopper one of the technicians and found a moth or insect in two of the vacuum tubes...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer

Discussion threads 2006-03-30

Images: Birth of the first computer

Images: Birth of the first computerSee also other reference about the subjectReference; http://www.dotcalmcomputing.com/history.htmThe Vacuum TubeABC 1939 - the first digital computer was designed by John Astanasoff. Z3 1941 - invented by German engineer Konrad Zuse to design airplanes and missiles. Colossus 1943 - was developed by the British to...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-03-03

Computer history on display

A guided tour through the beginnings of the computerTake a tour of the Computer History Museum with Bill Selmeier, senior docent, and see one of the panels of the original ENIAC.

Tags: computer

Videos 2006-02-13

Images: Birth of the first computer

J. Presper Eckert and John Mauch designed ENIAC to calculate the trajectory of artillery shells. Fortunately, we've found other uses for their invention.

Tags: trajectory, computer

Image galleries 2006-02-13

ENIAC: The public's first glimpse of a computer

Eighteen-thousand vacuum tubes and a box of light bulbsOn Valentine's Day sixty years ago, the world read the first newspaper accounts of a mysterious, new computing machine in Philadelphia. It wasn't the first computer ever made, but on that day, public awareness of modern technology took its first great post-war...

Tags: computer

Videos 2006-02-13

Images: Birth of the first computer

J. Presper Eckert and John Mauch designed ENIAC to calculate the trajectory of artillery shells. Fortunately, we've found other uses for their invention.

Tags: trajectory, computer

Image galleries 2006-02-13

A century later, Einstein's first ideas still hold power

A century later, Einstein's first ideas still hold powerNot according to MY sources..http://www.junkbrosnews.com/may05/emc2.htmLOL..So, did he have a H1-B visa??Einstein was so far ahead......of even what we know today that, if I understand correctly, top minds are still trying to understand the theorems he was working on when he died. ...

Tags: Linux, PC, Einstein

Discussion threads 2005-06-01