J. Presper Eckert- Co-inventor- A Lost interview...
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1."Problems Building Eniac"
JPE: "I'd say the biggest problems were making sure that this thing would work when we were done."
2."calculations that could not be done without a computer"
"JPE: Engineering problems, scientific problems in general, of which the ballistics problem was the convenient problem for which [as it] would have been called in show business there was an "available angel" to finance it."
J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly went into business together and created the first computer corp. called the Eckert- Mauchly Computer Corporation
JPE: "I'd say the biggest problems were making sure that this thing would work when we were done."
2."calculations that could not be done without a computer"
"JPE: Engineering problems, scientific problems in general, of which the ballistics problem was the convenient problem for which [as it] would have been called in show business there was an "available angel" to finance it."
J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly went into business together and created the first computer corp. called the Eckert- Mauchly Computer Corporation
The Funds that went into the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator
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"The original agreement between the United States of America and the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, dated June 5, 1943, called for six months of "research and development of an electronic numerical integrator and computer and delivery of a report thereon." This initial contract committed $61,700 in U.S. Army Ordnance funds."