NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eniac, World War I, Jacquard Loom
3 Oct 2015
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Test #1 is multiple test and is not about facts such as years and names. More about stories about early computers, and about its signi cance. Computers are part of a pattern of older technologies that come from older disciplines. Testing the ability to take notes and reading. Going over this in the tutorial as well. 1940s up and until, humans were computers. (wwii) Jacquard loom: make patterns for design with punch cards. (read more in readings) Look into stories about charles babbage and his wife. Story of cash register. (worrying about employees stealing money) Ibm systematized everything, and it was how they sold and make people want business machines. Bush made a machine to perform a number of engineering function rather than just one that could store an in nite amount of information. (envisioned through idea of memex) Colossus was used to break german codes. (electronic computer) (process text as opposes to performing mathematical calculations (cryptology).
