By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
Sun, Feb 28, 2021 7:43 p.m.
75 Years Ago, the World's First Modern Computer Made Its Public Debut
 | Seventy five years ago, the world was introduced to ENIAC, the first ever electronic, programmable, general purpose, digital computer, in a demonstration that not only ushered in the first ... newatlas.com |
PGCE-P: Did Nubians invent this in the land of Wakanda?
My late father programmed electromechanical computers for the War Department during WW II.
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R.C.: He programmed in assembly language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language and later in RPG and COBOL.
 | In computer programming, assembly language (or assembler language), often abbreviated asm, is any low-level programming language in which there is a very strong correspondence between the instructions in the language and the architecture's machine code instructions. Because assembly depends on the machine code instructions, every assembly language is designed for exactly one specific computer ... en.wikipedia.org |
 | The microchip (or integrated circuit) is one of the most important advances in computing technology. Many overlaps in history existed between microchip-based computers and transistor-based computers throughout the 1960s, and even into the early 1970s.The microchip spurred the production of minicomputers and microcomputers, which were small and inexpensive enough for small businesses and even ... computerhistorytoday.weebly.com |
R.C.: He played hooky from his job one day.
The military police came to my grandmother's house and brought him back to work at the War Department.
He might have been 18 years old at the time.
Not bad for growing up in absolute poverty during the Great Depression.
He and his 9 brothers and sisters grew up in the left-hand unit of the duplex.
Somewhere behind the scenes there was a negress doing all the hard work. The whitey co-workers stole her ideas and took all the credit. I am sure. Not.
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