NATS 1700 Chapter Notes - Chapter PG 758-771: Vacuum Tube, Universal Logic, Investment
3 Oct 2015
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The digital construction of technology: rethinking the history of. As a result, these histo- ries gravitated naturally toward the high-status activities associated with the design and theorization of computers, rather than toward the more mundane work of actual computation. Martin campbell-kelly and william aspray characterized the computer as the information machine, which aptly cap- tured this new perspective on relevant history or histories, as michael mahoney repeatedly argued is the more appropriate description. 9. The electronic digital computer was able to be reinvested because of software. Software was focused in on and thought that combining operating instructions with its program and the data operated could be transformed into a universal logic machine. The ability to program a computer with software created many purposes. Software allows the control of social and biological systems. Turing machine is a type of computer than can be understood using computational terminology. We went from con guration to a live programmed machine.
