The computers we see today were not always the same. By computers, I mean anything able or helpful in computing. Early computers were mechanical calculators, punching machines, etc. Then came ENIAC ...
Philadelphia schoolchildren are drilled on the names of its accomplished citizens. William Penn. Benjamin Franklin. Betsy Ross. But during all the baby-boomer years I attended schools in the City of ...
If you are interested in historical big computers, you probably think of IBM, with maybe a little thought of Sperry Rand or, if you go smaller, HP, DEC, and companies like Data General. But you may ...