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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Info wanted on eniac computers
Message-ID: <17496@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 18 Jun 88 18:41:51 GMT
References: <198@marque.mu.edu> <Jun.17.21.37.08.1988.5494@porthos.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
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      I'd like to encourage people to write simulators for one or two of the
early machines, as a way of keeping the history alive.  The ENIAC was 
plugboard-programmed, so it is not an enormously interesting machine to
simulate.  But simulating IAS, or Binac, or Whirlwind, would be a useful
exercise.  Especially if some original software could be found and brought
back to life.

      Is there a vacuum-tube computer still running anywhere, even in a
museum?  

					John Nagle