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Re:ENIAC Operating Manual (1946) [pdf] by segfaultbuserr on Thursday May 16, 2019 @01:30AM (#19926395)
An interesting fact of ENIAC is, although it was originally programmed by plugboards in 1946, it was soon retrofitted to a stored-program computer in 1948 to simplify programming, using its spare function table units as ROM, and its extra accumulators as a program counter and a pointer. I wonder if there's any project to recreate an ENIAC simulation in stored-program mode.
Re:ENIAC Operating Manual (1946) [pdf] by hcs on Friday May 17, 2019 @04:36AM (#19937514)
For anyone interested in this period, there's a book on the stored-program ENIAC: http://eniacinaction.com/