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Computer pioneer Gordon Bell hosts this two-part program on the evolution of electronic computing from its pre-World War II origins through the development of the first commercial computers.
55 years, 6 months
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His narration traces the development of the stored program computer architecture which remains the foundation of today's modern computers. In Part 1 The builders of the first five computer machines: the Bell Labs Model 1, the Zuse Z1-3, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the Harvard Mark 1 and the IBM SSEC tell their stories. In Part 2 Vintage films and first hand accounts enliven the stories of the ENIAC and the three lines of computing machines descended from it: the Eckert-Mauchly EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC; Maurice Wilkes EDSAC; and John Von Neumann's IAS machines and their clones, the ILLIAC, MANIAC, etc.
Course Currilcum
- Part 1 – Dawn of Electronic Computer, 1935-1945 Unlimited
- Part 2 – The First Computers, 1946-1950 Unlimited
