Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!gamma!mibte!edsdrd!ceg From: ceg@edsdrd.UUCP (Carlos Galarce) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: Clippinger-modified ENIAC and June 48 Manchester Mark I (was: Info...) Summary: Book on work that lead to the ENIAC Message-ID: <984@edsdrd.UUCP> Date: 8 Jul 88 14:30:28 GMT References: <198@marque.mu.edu> Organization: EDS Research, Troy, MI 48007-7019 Lines: 41 Arthur Burks (University of Michigan) and Alicia Burks have written a book on work that lead to the ENIAC. The First Electronic Computer: The Atanasoff Story The University of Michigan Press 839 Greene Street Ann Arbor, Mi 48106 (313) 764-4392 About $30.00 From a flier I picked up at a conference: "... This special purpose digital machine not only proved the feasibility of electronic computation, but also led directly to the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, and through its successors to the computers of today..." "... In the First Electronic Computer, Alice and Arthur Burks describe the genesis of Anatosoff's machine, placing in the context of the technologies from which it grew and the technology it launched..." Even though I haven't read this particular book, I have read some of Arthur Burks' papers on the subject and they are quite interesting. They deal with patents, corporate maneuvering and litigation in US Federal Court on the subject of the electronic computer invention. I am sure that this book should give some insights into early work in digital computers from a team that was there when things were happening. -- Carlos E. Galarce - Electronic Data Systems Research USENET: ... {rutgers!umix,uunet!edsews}!rel!edsdrd!ceg USMail: 2107 Crooks Rd. Troy, Mi 48007-7019