Making Programmers

2020-04-06

Betty Jean Jennings (left) and Fran Bilas (right) operate ENIAC’s main control panel (from Wikipedia)

4 of the forty ENIAC panels at Penn.

After the war

Claude Shannon

Univac–1951

The first 10 Univacs (Ceruzzi 28):

  1. US Census 1951
  2. Air Force 1952
  3. US Army Map Service
  4. Atomic energy commission, NYU in New York
  5. Atomic energy commission, California
  6. Navy Shipyards
  7. Remington Rand
  8. General Electric. 1954 payroll checks produced for local employees–incredible care.
  9. Metropolitan Life.
  10. Government again.

The IBM 650, 1953

Drum Storage on an IBM 650, c. 1955

Desk Set

“Desk Set”

9:25-15:50 6 min 28:00-37:50 9 min 1:20:50-1:27:30 7 min 1:30:00-1:38:00 8 min

Binary Data

core circuitry from the IBM Whirlwind computer.

Software

Grace Murray Hopper, 1960