[TUHS] Happy birthday, J. Presper Eckert!

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Mon Apr 9 09:27:10 AEST 2018


J. Presper Eckert was born on this day in 1919; along with John Mauchly, 
he was a co-designer of ENIAC, one of the world's first programmable 
electronic computers.  Yes, there is a long-running dispute over whether 
ENIAC or Colossus was first; being a Pommie, I'm siding with Colossus :-)

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."



More information about the TUHS mailing list