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Eniac: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer
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Eniac: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer Hardcover - 1999

by McCartney, Scott

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New York: Walker and Company, 1999. Reprint. Second printing. Hardcover. Good in very good dust jacket. Slightly cocked.. viii, 262 p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. In this historical analysis, McCartney tells the story of the first computer, from its humble beginnings as a wartime number cruncher to the revolution it began. During World War II, John Mauchly and Presper Eckert invented ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) as a replacement for the handheld calculators that determined where artillery shells would land. The author asserts that these inventors should receive credit for their contribution to the computing field.
Used - Good in very good dust jacket. Slightly cocked.
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  • Title Eniac: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer
  • Author McCartney, Scott
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint. Second printing
  • Condition Used - Good in very good dust jacket. Slightly cocked.
  • Pages 262
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Walker and Company, New York
  • Date 1999
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 60717
  • ISBN 9780802713483 / 0802713483
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.07 x 5.71 x 1.03 in (20.50 x 14.50 x 2.62 cm)
  • Reading level 1180
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-54845
  • Dewey Decimal Code 004.1

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In early 1997, Garry Kasparov, the Russian grand master of chess, squared off against "Deep Blue," an International Business Machines Corporation computer built with circuits designed specifically for the kind of computations-the kind of "thinking"-that goes on during chess.

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