The second life of ENIAC

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 4-16

  Neukom, Hans ^a  

^a NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE;

ELECTRONIC NUMERICAL INTEGRATOR AND CALCULATOR; STORED-PROGRAM COMPUTERS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 33646888622     PISSN: 10586180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAHC.2006.39     Document Type: Article

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