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ENIAC co-inventor busts some ENIAC myths [www.computerworld.com]

60th anniversary of ENIAC - Great interview with one of the co-inventors Presper Eckert.

I had the privilege of seeing UNIVAC when I was at the Melbourne University Computer Science Department (gotta love that they're sticking with their mu.oz.au domain :) Apparently they powered it up sometimes and it worked, but due to lack of spare tubes they didn't do it very often.

12:15 PM, 17 Feb 2006 by Mark Aufflick Permalink

Univac?

Don't you mean Csirac? It's now at the Melbourne Museum but it will never fire up again is my guess. I don't think it has had power applied for about 15 years now.

by Unregistered Visitor on 02/24/06

Correction

Sorry, you are right of course.

by Mark Aufflick on 02/27/06

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