ENIAC Programmers (2011)(columbia.edu)
13 points by adunk | 1 comments
Columbia University Computing History page by Frank da Cruz about the ENIAC and the women who programmed it by plugging cables and setting switches.
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Programming the ENIAC (2011)(columbia.edu)
9 points by nill0 | 0 comments
A Columbia University Computing History page by Frank da Cruz on the ENIAC and how its women programmers set it up by plugging cables and flipping switches.
![Screenshot of tomandmaria.com: Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/1/b4d72e53-57fb-489e-98ff-90821d31e684.jpg)
Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf](tomandmaria.com)
48 points by nill0 | 1 comments
A 2014 IEEE Annals of the History of Computing paper by Haigh, Priestley and Rope reconstructing the 1948 ENIAC Monte Carlo nuclear simulations run for Los Alamos.
Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?(quora.com)
176 points by midnightfish | 61 comments
A Quora answer by Alan Kay to the question of whether the ENIAC computer had a BIOS; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.