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Sender: "Michael R. Williams" Subject: Re: CM> Memories of ENIAC and "computers."
At 11:44 PM 7/5/96 -0700, you wrote:
>[Moderator's note: here is a transcript of an email discussion I had with
>William A. Reitwiesner, whose mother worked first as a human "computer"
>then on ENIAC, witnessing the transition from human computers to digital
>computers (the word "computer" used to describe a human job.) Hopefully
>she too will send us a description of her experience.
If readers will look in the Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 18,
Num. 1, (First issue of 1996) they will find a good description of the ENIAC
and the people that created it (good early biographies of J. Presper Eckert
and John Mauchly) and other ENIAC related items.
If they will wait about 2 weeks, they can look in Annals Vol 18, Number 3
(due in the mail soon) and there will be a very good description of the
women who worked on ENIAC -- including a lot of materail by Home'
Reitwiesner -- put together by Barkley Fritz (a supervisor of ENIAC) who
knew and worked with all these women. This issue of Annals is a special
issue about "women in computing" and will be of interest to anyone who wants
to know something of the human side of the subject.
Mike Williams
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Dr. Michael R. Williams
Editor-in-Chief, Annals of the History of Computing
Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2N 1N4
Ph: (403) 220-6781
Fax: (403) 284-4707
email: williams@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
______________________________________________________________________
At 11:44 PM 7/5/96 -0700, you wrote:
>[Moderator's note: here is a transcript of an email discussion I had with
>William A. Reitwiesner, whose mother worked first as a human "computer"
>then on ENIAC, witnessing the transition from human computers to digital
>computers (the word "computer" used to describe a human job.) Hopefully
>she too will send us a description of her experience.
If readers will look in the Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 18,
Num. 1, (First issue of 1996) they will find a good description of the ENIAC
and the people that created it (good early biographies of J. Presper Eckert
and John Mauchly) and other ENIAC related items.
If they will wait about 2 weeks, they can look in Annals Vol 18, Number 3
(due in the mail soon) and there will be a very good description of the
women who worked on ENIAC -- including a lot of materail by Home'
Reitwiesner -- put together by Barkley Fritz (a supervisor of ENIAC) who
knew and worked with all these women. This issue of Annals is a special
issue about "women in computing" and will be of interest to anyone who wants
to know something of the human side of the subject.
Mike Williams
---------------------------------------------------
Dr. Michael R. Williams
Editor-in-Chief, Annals of the History of Computing
Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2N 1N4
Ph: (403) 220-6781
Fax: (403) 284-4707
email: williams@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
______________________________________________________________________
