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If you're interested in ENIAC history, there is a lot more interesting material to check. Jean Bartik has e.g. also written an autobiography, see "Pioneer Prog
by Rochus 2y ago
If you're interested in ENIAC history, there is a lot more interesting material to check.
Jean Bartik has e.g. also written an autobiography, see "Pioneer Programmer: Jean Jennings Bartik and the Computer that Changed the World" (2013), Truman State University Press.
And there is a lot of interesting information in the Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand patent court case. Here is a summary: http://jva.cs.iastate.edu/courtcase.php http://jva.cs.iastate.edu/courtcase.php. Here is a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell,_Inc._v._Sperry_Rand_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell,_Inc._v._Sperry_Rand.... And here is the judgement with all the details: https://web.archive.org/web/20160327031754/http://www.ushistory.org/more/eniac/index.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20160327031754/http://www.ushist....
And of course there is the story written by Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli: https://web.archive.org/web/20230306052255/https://sites.google.com/a/opgate.com/eniac/Home/kay-mcnulty-mauchly-antonelli https://web.archive.org/web/20230306052255/https://sites.goo....
There are also some interviews which you can find on youtube.
One must also be aware that there are a few publications by people who were also involved in an inglorious way, but preferred to convey a different but wrong version of the story in their favor. Jean Bartik and others have addressed these publications (e.g. in other Amazon reviews, or in the referenced interviews).