The thought keeps occurring lately that my dad (who is still with us) is older than #ENIAC. All of this #nonsense within one human lifetime.
#Eniac
9 aprile 1919
Nasce Presper Eckert, famoso per il suo lavoro con John Mauchly sul progetto #ENIAC.
La costruzione dell'ENIAC iniziò nel giugno 1943. Eckert era l'ingegnere capo. A volte restava a dormire vicino alla macchina in costruzione, Una volta, per l scherzo, due tecnici sollevarono traportarono il lettino in cui dormiva in una stanza identica alla sua, ma al piano superiore; quando Eckert si svegliò, per qualche istante pensò che avessero rubato il calcolatore.
Wie viele #ITPionierfrauen kennt ihr außer #AdaLovelace, #GraceHopper und #HeddyLamar? Wer waren die #Eniac-Frauen? Das alles kann man super aufbereitet und zeitlich eingeordnet hier mal nachschauen
Quelle: Ki-kurs.org 🤓📝
https://ki-kurs.org/app/milestones/pioneer-women
P.S: Im Quiz gibt es eine kleine Verwechslung findet ihr sie?
От счетных палочек до ПАКов
Прогресс привычно изображается спиралью. Виток за витком от каменного топора до космических кораблей. Нам кажется, что информационные технологии молоды, но они уже успели совершить не один виток в своем развитии.
https://habr.com/ru/companies/timeweb/articles/882268/
#timeweb_статьи #пак #история #it #ада_байрон #энигма #ссср #zuse_z3 #eniac #mark_i
🔧💻 ⏳ Aujourd’hui, les élèves font chauffer les circuits de... l’ENIAC!
L’ENIAC est le premier ordinateur développé entre 1943 et 1945 par les ingénieurs John Presper Eckert et John William Mauchly à l’Université de Pennsylvanie aux États-Unis. Il est financé par l’armée américaine pour accélérer les calculs nécessaires aux tirs de canon et d'obus.
Leur débat du jour : La guerre rend-elle créatif ?
#premierordinateur #ENIAC
En 1949 se les unió Grace Hopper y un año después se convirtió la empresa en una división de Remington Rand, la principal competencia de IBM en los 70s.
El 8 de diciembre de 1947 se constituye la Corporación Informática Eckert-Mauchly.
Tal vez no te suene, pero Presper Eckert y John Mauchly fueron los que idearon y construyeron la ENIAC ubicada en la U. de Pensilvania con la que tuvieron un desacuerdo y pelearon la patente de este con la universidad, la que ganaron.
Una vez fundada EMCC, construyeron la BINAC y el UNIVAC.
Vermisst Du die MacBook Pro Touch Bar? Flexbar könnte die Lösung sein
Die Touch Bar, eingeführt mit dem MacBook Pro 2016, war ein kontroverses Feature. Während einige Nutzer:innen die dynamischen und anpassbaren Tasten schätzten, wurde sie
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/vermisst-du-die-macbook-pro-touch-bar-flexbar-koennte-die-loesung-sein/
#Mac #News #Zubehr #DynamischeTasten #ENIAC #Flexbar #Kickstarter #MacZubehr #MacBookPro #Makros #StreamDeck #TouchBar #WorkflowOptimierung
Flexbar touchscreen controller for PC or Mac picks up where the MacBook Touch Bar left off (crowdfunding)
A few years after Apple stopped shipping MacBook Pro models with a Touch Bar, a startup called ENIAC is banking on the idea that the reason Apple’s version proved unpopular wasn’t because the idea lacked merit… but because it didn’t go far enough in offering users enough customization options.
So ENIAC has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for a Touch Bar-style gadget called the Flexbar. It’s a widescreen, high-resolution touchscreen controller for PC and Mac computers that you can position above the keyboard, off to the side, or any other place you’d like to see context-dependent shortcuts for apps running on your computer.
When the Touch Bar first launched in 2016, Apple positioned it as a modern replacement for the Fn keys on a keyboard. Instead of a set of physical keys that served a single purpose, the idea was to give you a small touchscreen display that could show different icons for different apps, make it easier to add emojis to messages, and also control volume, brightness, and other screen settings. Of course, you could also use it for F1 – F12 keys.
But a touchscreen has some shortcomings. You don’t get the same kind of tactile feedback when using it as you’d get from physical keys, which can make touch typing tricky. And since different icons are displayed in different situations, you probably need to look at the Touch Bar nearly every time you want to trigger an action anyway, which takes your eyes away from the screen.
It’s unclear if ENIAC’s Flexbar addresses all of those issues. But this 10 inch, 2170 x 60 pixel AMOLED touchscreen display is a standalone device rather than one that’s built into a laptop keyboard. And that means you can use it with a laptop, desktop or tablet and position it in an aluminum stand so that the Flexbar is angled to be within your line of sight. It also offers haptic feedback when you press the screen.
The Flexbar also isn’t limited to Macs. It can also work with Windows PCs, and to a lesser extend with Android, iPadOS, and other operating systems, although ENIAC says you’ll need a Windows or Mac computer for full functionality – other operating systems only support hotkeys, while Windows and Mac apps will let users customize the behavior of the touchscreen controller.
So far the hardware appears to be pretty much ready to go, but software is still a work in progress. There are already bunch of preloaded shortcuts and controls for some popular programs, but ENIAC is hoping to encourage third-party developers to create additional controls that could be downloaded and installed through a “Plugin system and Marketplace” that’s expected to launch in the second quarter of 2025. Users will also be able to create their own custom designs using a FlexBarDesigner app – an alpha version of the Windows app is already available for download from the Kickstarter page.
The Flexbar is expected to have a retail price of $179, but crowdfunding backers can reserve one for a pledge of $119 or more in hopes of receiving one in February, 2025. But keep in mind that this is a crowdfunding campaign for a device that does not yet exist in large volumes – so there’s a chance that ENIAC will fail to meet that deadline, or that the Flexbar won’t live up to expectations. And we already know that the plugin ecosystem and marketplace isn’t expected to be available until sometime after the hardware begins shipping to backers. So, as with any crowdfunding campaign, it’s probably best to proceed with caution.
via The Verge
#controller #crowdfunding #eniac #flexbar #touchBar #touchscreen
The Sperry Rand Corporation
This is the final entry in a four part series. You may be interested in reading about The #eniac which led to The Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, which was then purchased by Remington-Rand.
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-sperry-rand-corporation
El 10 de noviembre de 1963, fallece Klára Dán von Neumann, científica computacional húngara, una de las primeras programadoras computacionales y la primera mujer en ejecutar codificación de estilo moderno en un ordenador. Su esposo John von Neumann fue el Padre de la Computación Moderna, con quien colaboró en la computadora MANIAC I, y posteriormente en la ENIAC como programadora
#retrocomputingmx #klaravonneumann #eniac
El 19 de octubre de 1973, el juez Earl Larson declara inválida la patente de ENIAC y nombra a John Atanasoff inventor de la computadora digital electrónica
#retrocomputingmx #eniac #JohnAtanasoff
El 8 de octubre de 1996, el Servicio Postal de los Estados Unidos lanza un nuevo sello conmemorativo del 50 aniversario de la ENIAC.
#retrocomputingmx #eniac
El 2 de octubre de 1955, se desconecta para siempre el ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) El primer ordenador electrónico de propósito general. Estuvo financiado por el Ejército de EEUU y se anunció al público el 5 de julio de 1946
#retrocomputingmx #eniac
Au programme des #lecturesdelasemaine, entre autres, le 5e compendium de #Spawn, #Eniac et #Tankers chez @blisseditions, #JunkyardJoe en TP, un peu d'#AoAshi et le très joli #Poppoya. Comme d'hab le reste est sur la photo 😉
🎶 ... there's an #ENIAC ENIAC on the floor, and it's compuing like it never did before ... 🎶
“I see a day in which the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer will be miraculously powered by only 16,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only twenty tons! Instead of taking up one very large room, I am confident the day will come when it will fit snugly into a slightly smaller room, yet leave space for a chair and a very thin filing cabinet.”
Fictional quote in Ibid – A Life by Mark Dunn.
Podcasttipp: Die ENIAC-Frauen - Künstliche Intelligenz ist weiblich
#Podcast #Podcasts #Frauen #LostSheroes #Cosmo #KünstlicheIntelligenz #KI #Informatik #ENIAC #Technology #AI #artificialintelligence #Programming #Engineering #Luistertip
@podcast
@podcasts
#WednesdayWisdom 👾 #知見の水曜日
#おはよう ございます
" #Calculator " is an abbreviation for "electronic desk calculator." In the past, vacuum tube-based calculators were mainstream and were huge in size.
In the 1940s, #ENIAC was about 30 meters long, 2.5 meters high, and weighed about 30 tons, but advances in semiconductor technology made it #pocket_sized.
#電卓 とは”電子卓上計算機”の略語です
昔は真空管を使ったものが主流で巨大だったのです
1940年代に登場したENIACは全長約30メートル、高さ約2.5メートル、重さ約30トンありましたが、半導体技術の向上で電卓はポケットサイズになったのです
#aiart #wrtn #Claude3
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