Rectificando la historia de la ENIAC
En ComputerWorld publicaron una entrevista a J. Presper Eckert, uno de los creadores de la computadora ENIAC.
Q&A: A lost interview with ENIAC co-inventor J. Presper Eckert
Algunos mitos desmentidos:
So it’s a myth that ENIAC could only add, subtract, multiply and divide.
No, that’s a calculator. ENIAC could do three-dimensional, second-order differential equations. We were calculating trajectory tables for the war effort. In those days. The trajectory tables were calculated by hundreds of people operating desk calculators — people who were called computers. So the machine that does that work was called a computer.
There’s a story that ENIAC dimmed the lights in Philadelphia when it was in use.
That story is total fiction, dreamed up by some journalist. We took power off of the grid. We had voltage regulators to provide 150 kilowatts of regulated supply.
Hay otros datos poco conocidos en la entrevista.
Más artículos como este en:
Algunos artículos relacionados:
(Lecturas: 599) 
