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  • 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
  • 53m
  • 1h 46m (2 episodes)
Gordon Bell hosts this two-part program on the evolution of electronic computing from its pre-WWII origins through the development of the first commercial computers. His narration traces the development of the stored program computer architecture which remains the foundation of today's computers.

2 episodes

Series Premiere

1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

1x01 The Dawn of Electronic Computing, 1935-1945

Series Premiere

1x01 The Dawn of Electronic Computing, 1935-1945

  • 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z53m

In part one, the builders of the first five machines (the Bell Labs Model 1, the Zuse Z1-3, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the Harvard Mark1, and the SSEC) tell their stories.

1x02 The First Computers, 1946-1950

  • 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z53m

Part two focuses on the ENIAC, and the three lines of machines descending 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.

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