The genius and engineering behind this machine is amazing.
@ArtisanTony
7 жыл бұрын
I solved it in my head dummy.
@argir5849
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Kanye! Very cool.
@user-ig9hm6fv7w
5 жыл бұрын
He is from my country ;D
@GH-oi2jf
5 жыл бұрын
Пилешка Супа - Atanasoff was American. His father was from Bulgaria.
@banelao
5 жыл бұрын
@@GH-oi2jf Atanasoff was a prominent American/Bulgarian inventor who took pride in his Bulgarian heritage and maintained strong ties to his ancestral home of Bulgaria. From a letter he wrote, "To My Fatherland" : "I have always felt that the Bulgarian heritage in my blood has kept my spirit. And now, as I am growing old, I am even happier for my good fortune. My people have met me warmly and have given me a high prize, the Cyril and Methodius Order First Class, my first public recognition. I was elected a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and I am in touch with many friends in Bulgaria."
@williamcorcoran8842
4 жыл бұрын
This blows me away! This is utterly fantastic! What a love for truth in history! Great work!!!!!!
@pierQRzt180
7 ай бұрын
Every major technological product should be either stored or replicated like this.
@michaelbauers8800
Жыл бұрын
Wow, a binary conversion via table using a huge metal drum. Very creative!
@newcoleco
14 жыл бұрын
I've a huge respect for these pioneers... building sush machines it's an harmony of science and art (it looks cool, don't you think?).
@david203
Жыл бұрын
The original machine probably didn't look so nice. The designers of this machine were motivated by the need to solve real-world problems. They did not aim to make use of either science or art, just practical technologies.
@bob4analog
8 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love this! This is an awesome explaination of how computers got where they are today.
@antigen4
6 жыл бұрын
though not kind of - for a decade or two after this computers took a big silly detour - and only after that did we return to and recognize atanasoff's contribution which was WAY ahead of it's time
@saskiavanhoutert3190
4 жыл бұрын
It looks like a drum-scanner, I saw that one on my Graphic Lyceum at Eindhoven, the Netherlands, thanks for showing and kind regards.
@nadanutcase
11 жыл бұрын
I live about 30 miles east of the university and I happen to know one of the engineers who was on the team that built the replica. I was at the unveiling and saw it work. It is, of course, "primitive" by todays' standards, but try to imagine one man, in the course of one long evening coming up with the 7 tube adder/subtractor module, the input method and the memory drum (which is, BTW not DRAM but DSAM since it is sequentially accessed as the drum rotates. This was an AMAZING piece of work.
@BTCrrc
Жыл бұрын
Just think about creating this machine in 1939 73 years ago ...this is mindblowing🤯 to see how they must have came to idea and engineering to do this in 1939.Hatts off to inventors of ABC.
@ronetele13
6 жыл бұрын
Amazing to see the ABC in action. And the effort that you guys put in to recreating this! Wow! Much less Atanasoff's building it in the first place!!
@GH-oi2jf
5 жыл бұрын
It is pointless to argue about who invented the computer, particularly by arguing what constitutes a computer. Atanasoff himself said "I have always taken the position that there is enough credit for everyone in the invention and development of the electronic computer.” Just remember people for what they contributed and when.
@zarni000
2 жыл бұрын
he was modest to a fault. people who know his contribution rightly credit him and berry.
@OJB42
14 жыл бұрын
Wow. That's a thing of beauty. Amazing that it actually works!
@GrittyMaholmes
3 жыл бұрын
and i am here watching this on a foldable smartphone , Technology has come a long way HUh....
@allanegleston13
8 жыл бұрын
literaly 1 and 0 or on and off state . this gives a good analog reference for me to understand how my " modern" computer works . what is old is new again. a lot ot the tech reminds me of old style player piano rolls and such.
@dbeierl
8 жыл бұрын
The dynamic RAM in your modern computer also uses capacitors to store data, but they need to be refreshed every fifty milliseconds or more often, and the difference between a one and a zero might be a dozen or so electrons.
@therealchayd
11 ай бұрын
What an amazing machine! Although I got totally lost after the first few minutes, there's certainly a lot going on in there.
@MatHelm
11 жыл бұрын
Not to bust your B's here, but "Primitive" is a term that should never be used when looking back in time at machines. I can't imagine anything more simplified than this. Write a simple program, or draw out a single digit calculator on paper. The shear genius involved is evident. Once you have transistors, and realize they can be used as switches, things become easy. But without efforts like this, when and why do transistors even get invented? Vacuum tubes work great for amplification.
@1906Farnsworth
7 жыл бұрын
A marvelous machine. I especially like the way none of the controls are marked. You just have to know what they do. Steam locomotives are the same way. All you see is a couple of dozen red handles. Turn the wrong one, and everybody dies. Less at stake with the computer.
@lordofthecats6397
6 жыл бұрын
Not the same way with modern computers. Someone clicks on the wrong email, then an entire banking system goes down.
@violian5
12 жыл бұрын
Wow. You don't truly appreciate your personal computers today until you see this video.
@michaelbauers8800
Жыл бұрын
And now we have very powerful computers in our pockets that also operate as phones, connect to the internet, tell us where on the earth we are, and take photos :)
@VYD239
13 жыл бұрын
Now I'll switch on the memory drum, so you can't hear me talk anymore.
@AlainHubert
11 жыл бұрын
As Spock would say: fascinating ! The ingenuity of mankind will never cease to amaze me.
@amossberg
2 жыл бұрын
So the re-creators of the replica computer were able to get it working, unlike the original which was never fully operational. Very cool
@stelian95
14 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing.
@diwaloco1548
Жыл бұрын
Impresionante, las computadoras son recientes y la tecnología avanzo con pasos agigantados y acelerados.
@sshaxy860
Ай бұрын
man... if i was in charge of this, i would have stopped and been like. "we can calculate faster by hand.. what the heck is the purpose of this!?" This amazes me how some people just refuse to do things the easy way in order to achieve a vision that no one else has.
@allanegleston4931
3 жыл бұрын
would love to see this unit done in modern electronics instead of tubes . this must have been fantastic to see in its day.
@michaelbauers8800
Жыл бұрын
But it's trivial with modern digital electronics, IMO.
@zacheryandersen
13 жыл бұрын
@mattitheowl Collosus wasn't in prototype form until 1943, the ABC was working in 1942.
@antigen4
4 жыл бұрын
ABC first prototype in 1939. and the basis for ENIAC which lost a patent suit to atanasoff and berry
@TheScientist0000000
14 жыл бұрын
If the drum is rotated too fast, the bits will reach the escape velocity and be flung into space.
@douro20
11 жыл бұрын
Yes, but that was a relay computer. The ABC is all-electronic, even when you consider that there is a motor to rotate the memory drums.
@paegr
7 жыл бұрын
Can it run Doom?
@stevebez2767
5 жыл бұрын
Paegr arcade pink rock n rolls his stor reads psyco craft maze esc enc bypass
@4623620
5 жыл бұрын
RUN Doom ? . . . It is Doom !
@alekoldchannel1950
4 жыл бұрын
Good question.
@jvolstad
4 жыл бұрын
Or how about Wordstar?
@ClassicGarth
12 жыл бұрын
They forgot to show the dwarf who solves the equations and lives inside the cabinet.
@WaqasYousaf1
14 жыл бұрын
3000 bits... damn, pretty large storage space this computer has
@SciHeartJourney
3 жыл бұрын
Wow! I would love to revamp this design using transistors and LEDS to replace the vacuum tubes. The LEDS will show you the logic state of each transistor. The rotating drum looks like the biggest challenge. I think magnetic coils and small magnets might do the same job. The mechanical engineering that went into making these electronic wonders is just as impressive to me, as a modern electrical engineer. It's fascinating to see what one could do with great ingenuity! It was NOT invented by "extraterrestrial aliens", like so many Hollywood movies suggest 😞🙄
@sshaxy860
Ай бұрын
now i understand the point of binary and Boolean... its almost like the drum/wheel was created first before the concept of binary. I wish my teachers would teach it like this. makes me feel like im part of the solution
@ufoengines
9 жыл бұрын
If say one hundred of these computer where build and connected together, could a distributed computing network have been formed and been useful in some way?
@debradisharoon
10 жыл бұрын
I wish the audio quality was better.
@yakacm
8 жыл бұрын
very cool.
@nyuzoo
Жыл бұрын
From the moment they turn the drums on, the narration is overwhelmed by the noise. :(
@QuaaludeCharlie
10 жыл бұрын
I can see how it is better than pencil and paper when working on larger more complex math values , Thank you for the Demonstration :) QC
@david203
8 жыл бұрын
+Quaalude Charlie As explained, it makes many equations in many unknowns solvable. Without such a calculator, and without a computer, it can take weeks to solve such large algebraic systems. Was explained in the video.
@Jeffrey314159
8 жыл бұрын
No one man or woman is entirely or even primarily responsible for the invention of the modern digital computer
@berkut2006
6 жыл бұрын
agree
@antigen4
5 жыл бұрын
but if ANYONE does - it's probably john atanasoff - considering the eckert and mauchly one is widely considered 'the first' by many yet we know it was a bit of a ripoff of atanasoff's
@GH-oi2jf
5 жыл бұрын
antigen4 - But it was Atanasoff who said their was enough credit for everybody. He did not claim priority except, in court, to describe what he did and when.
@Iv40
2 жыл бұрын
Велик човек
@sbalogh53
14 жыл бұрын
Wow! That is a primitive computer, but amazing never-the-less. It seems to be very complicated for what it does. Was there no attempt to simplify the operation of the machine, or is this the end result of some simplifications?
@heynic37
3 жыл бұрын
Well *ACTUALLY* the Zuse Z3 was first(being digital, but electromechanical), even being able to process floating point numbers, being able to be programmed and was turing complete. And built with electromagnetic telephone relays in May 1941.
@joshcorley9220
2 жыл бұрын
And you are wrong, this was invented in the 30s, it just means is the first computer wasn’t Turing whatever or programmable.
@heynic37
2 жыл бұрын
@@joshcorley9220 There are multiple sources, some say it was built before but didn't work flawlessly, others say it was built in the same year. Latest and most sure is probably 1942 when it was *successfully* tested.
@joshcorley9220
2 жыл бұрын
@@heynic37 their prototype was finished and demonstrated in 1939 so who cares, that would be the first one. And no it was finished in the first weeks of January 1941 and demonstrated in 1942. I’m pretty sure the Z was done later in 1941 and it wasn’t demonstrated until a couple years later.
@charlesmcboy445
8 жыл бұрын
In the last days knowledge will be abundant PS let me know if it is up for sale
@Jeffrey314159
8 жыл бұрын
Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom
@digitchaser
14 жыл бұрын
so cool!
@simeoncherepoff1154
12 жыл бұрын
Wow bulgaria such a small countery,but we made the thing that the hole world use i am so proud
@GH-oi2jf
Жыл бұрын
John Atanasoff was born in the United States and built this machine in the United States. His father was from Bulgaria.
@daveybgandeng3094
Ай бұрын
Well as a Bulgarian, I can say that he wanted the computer to be known from Bulgaria, but of course his wish did not happen. @@GH-oi2jf
@echodelta9
9 жыл бұрын
Could we have gotten to this without the player piano and automatic musical instruments?
@DJjakedrake
9 жыл бұрын
echodelta9 Nope, unless you had access to knowledge 30 years in the future. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_wheel
@GH-oi2jf
5 жыл бұрын
echodelta9 - yes.
@Struwwel2
Жыл бұрын
Computer operators had to be hands-on and attentive with all those mechanical parts. Imagine how badly you could mess up a computation if you put a card in backwards or if it wasn't seated properly.
@GH-oi2jf
Жыл бұрын
This computer was a one-off, built as proof of concept. It was never a production machine. Computers very quickly became more practical operationally. Hollerith cards have one corner cut, so a card in a deck cannot be oriented incorrectly without it being obvious.
@michaelbauers8800
Жыл бұрын
The Apollo space program had a computer whose program was thin wires passing through metal cores, basically a metal core memory, but ROM not RAM. They hired women skilled in needlework I believe, to "weave" the program. Lots of room for error with that process!
@NuGanjaTron
11 жыл бұрын
Brilliant stuff! But whoever did the end credits for this video was pretty dyslexic... ;^)
@kae4466
5 жыл бұрын
fascinating. its amaiZing what was done with zinc plated vacuum ttubes
@Omnihil777
2 жыл бұрын
The ZUSE Z3 was completed in 1941 and was a fully programmable digital computer, it was electro-mechanical though. But even the ABC has some significant mechanical elements. The ENIAC and the COLOSSUS were quite early, too. A statement like that at the beginning is difficult, especially when you think of several development prototypes that were built around that time. But never forget the ZUSEs. Just sayin' .
@joshcorley9220
2 жыл бұрын
Oh get over it, this one was done in the 30s before any of the others.
@michaelbauers8800
Жыл бұрын
I try to remember as many of them as I can, because they probably all made contributions. Babbage. The British wartime stuff like Collosus(sp?). Zuse machines. ABC. Eniac. Even the Univac I, the first commercial electronic digital computer. People have this desire for "firsts". But progress is usually more iterative with the limitions of each iteration driving the next iteration. In any case, these fledgling computers are all interesting to me.
@SomewhereInRoblox
10 ай бұрын
It's sad to see that almost nobody says that John Atanasov's father is Bulgarian.
@nickdiamond7595
2 жыл бұрын
The bit drums are like player piano tubes or a music box. Same concept.
@michaelbauers8800
Жыл бұрын
very much agree
@sbalogh53
11 жыл бұрын
Hi Matt. I was not trying to be derogatory using the word primitive and I did say it is an amazing device for its time. I suppose my comment was a reaction to what was back then compared to what is now. However, I still think that the operation of this machine seems overly complex and wonder if it could not have been simplified. Maybe the version was much simpler?
@wunhunglo2880
7 жыл бұрын
amazing
@Funjackerjones
12 жыл бұрын
With a bit of over clocking i think they could get it to run Crysis 2
@jdunk2145
14 жыл бұрын
@HerrXRDS It can only handle three pixels before you start to get major lag.
@KandiKlover
6 жыл бұрын
Spark Gap printer haha good way to get a $10,000 NAL from the FCC if you don't properly shield that thing before running.
@mumblic
8 жыл бұрын
Looks to me more like a semi digital calculator. What I want to know is: What was the true first computer. It's needs to have a processor that has an instruction set and a program counter.
@wunhunglo2880
7 жыл бұрын
Mum Blic ugh
@austinfernando8406
7 жыл бұрын
Z1 built by Konrad Zuse in 1935/6 (there's a replica but the original was destroyed by british bombing in ww2) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_(computer) www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/6170/Zuse-Z1-built-by-Konrad-Zuse/
@michaelbauers8800
Жыл бұрын
"First true computer" is subjective though. This is why people debate these points all the time. If they were precise, there's less debate perhaps. For example, people could ask questions like "What was the first electronic, digital, stored program computer?" That's probably easier to answer. Of course you have to educate yourself on the variables first, but by the time you start learning about all the early computers, and how they varied, you probably know enough, to not be so worried about "firsts". Progress is iterative.
@MrSergione1978
8 жыл бұрын
I would absolutely use it to mining purposes
@MFMegaZeroX7
2 жыл бұрын
It was not the first computer to have parallel circuits, since the 1941 Z3 had a parallel adder.
@GH-oi2jf
Жыл бұрын
The early Zuse machines were relay devices, not electronic. The ABC was the first electronic computing device.
@MrJohndoakes
11 жыл бұрын
This is as simple as a computer can get using 1930s technology.
@MatHelm
11 жыл бұрын
I know you weren't. It's hard to get everything you want in with a 500 letter limit. But that machine is striped down to the very basics. With the limitations of mechanical components (as apposed to electronic ones) and the size of their fingers and what not, it's remarkably small. And there's always a time factor, because mathematics is everything for an engineer, you could spend your whole life refining and calculating. Check out Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine #2 here on YT
@daveybgandeng3094
Ай бұрын
Stop comparing.
@paulk7772
8 жыл бұрын
This can't be recorded in 99. It looks like the 80s?
@MultiMonitorComputer
7 жыл бұрын
cheap handheld camera. we dont remember how bad "consumer-grade" technology was before the age of Apple ;) Since Apple improved the quality of everything by being popular and cool, now pretty much everything is good
@Zishy
7 жыл бұрын
nice troll. apple didnt improve anything at all. apple was just good at marketing
@barracuda7018
8 жыл бұрын
The computer was invented in the U.S.A..!!!!!
@majorpentatonic2310
8 жыл бұрын
No, it was in Britain, the Colossus code breaking computer used in WW2
@barracuda7018
8 жыл бұрын
David Ascroft Dude, there is the real inventions and inventors and always a British versions of them !!! lol ..Computer was not invented in Britain period.. Colossus was simply a different version of computer which was not invented in Britain.. Try to explain to a German WHO invented the computer ..lol www.german-way.com/notable-people/featured-bios/konrad-zuse/ The vast majority of the so called British inventions ( jet engine, Radar, TV, electric motor, magnetron ect ect ) as presented by British sources to gullible British audience are figments of British imagination !! You go on maintaining the same old fiction, you make yourself laughing stock of the world.
@barracuda7018
8 жыл бұрын
Today, there wouldn't be modern computers without giant contributions made by the US.. Transistor was invented in the US.. www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae414.cfm Three Americans received Nobel Prize for it . And also the SOFTWARE was invented in America during Apollo moon landing Project. www.biography.com/people/jack-kilby-40499 The most important invention came from this man !!! There is no Brit here !!!
@liberalbias4462
7 жыл бұрын
David Ascroft this was built before colossus.
@liberalbias4462
7 жыл бұрын
And the computer chip was invented in the USA.
@ufoengines
11 жыл бұрын
The Zuse Z1 was made about 1936. Is that before the ABC? If the ABC had been mass produced during WW2 for distributed computing, how do you think that would have helped with the war effort,
@ihsanbajwa3974
2 жыл бұрын
ڈیجیٹل کمپوٹر جان ونسنٹ اٹیناسوف نے ایجاد کیا تھا۔۔۔۔۔کیا یہ معلومات درست ہیں؟؟؟؟
@daveybgandeng3094
Ай бұрын
Yes, well, the first digital computer
@Jumpboots_Jamstrang
14 жыл бұрын
Neat.
@Gigaguenther
8 жыл бұрын
huh? how does the machine know how many digits there are to each number?
@Gigaguenther
8 жыл бұрын
okay so the finished card has 3 fields, one for each number, but how did the operator decide in which field the pressed digits would go? i only see him pressing the numbers in an immediate sequence
@DrCandyStriper
7 жыл бұрын
Gigaguenther I imagine it's modeled after the IBM tabulating machines of the era. Those determined which digits go where by use of a plug board. Each column is wired so its value is assigned to different places. There are plenty of explanations of those machines on the net.
@laputahayom
13 жыл бұрын
@VYD239 it was not that bad.
@kappucinno7176
3 жыл бұрын
Jonh Atanasov dad is Bulgarian so he is half Bulgarian.
@MrCuddlyable3
8 жыл бұрын
10:06 PRIVATLY ? REASCERCH ? May we please have these words in English?
@VulcanOnWheels
8 жыл бұрын
+MrCuddlyable3 You missed INSITUTE.
@OffTheBeatenPath_
8 жыл бұрын
sums up Iowa state quality
@pivkaaa
7 жыл бұрын
cool:)
@mikeyoung9810
10 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this. You could argue endlessly about who was first or who got inspiration from whom. The abc is toy compared to ENIAC and while it's amazing in it's own right there is no real way to compare the two.
@david203
8 жыл бұрын
+Mike Young I agree with the comparison. ABC is not a true computer, since there is no stored program, no conditionals, and only trivial loops.
@Jeffrey314159
8 жыл бұрын
+David Spector The British Colossus was no computer!
@learningtolovethephilippines
11 жыл бұрын
that's why nowadays most kids question why it is called a computer and not a "GAMEr"
@johneygd
7 жыл бұрын
These computers were semi digital.
@antigen4
3 жыл бұрын
no - fully digital. this is the computer that was 'ripped off' to build the ENIAC
@GH-oi2jf
Жыл бұрын
What does “semi-digital” mean? What part was not digital?
@johneygd
Жыл бұрын
Well those gears might be controlled digitally but those gears itself are not digital,hence the term semi digital.
@andyrccar
14 жыл бұрын
i'm just gonna use pen and paper
@George_uh_Glass
Жыл бұрын
I like potatoes
@bob4o99
13 жыл бұрын
YEAH AMERICA IS GREAT BUT John Attanasof was a bulgarian imigrant sooooooo basicaly he used USA finansing cus Bulgaria was poor and Invented it that means he is BULGARIAN NOT AMERICAN AND BULGARIANS INVENTED the first computer greetings From Bulgaria
@oussematrabelsi9429
6 жыл бұрын
He was a Bulgarian American and also his coworker berry was american so no the invention was not Bulgarian
@GH-oi2jf
5 жыл бұрын
bob4o99 - His father was from Bulgaria. He was born in New York state.
@TruthTellert63
6 ай бұрын
This comment (from 12 years ago) is 100% false. Attanasof's father immigrated from Bulgaria - not Attanasof himself. As another poster pointed out, John was born in New York state; he actually grew up in Florida. (That's where he learned about electronics.) Therefore, John was 100% AMERICAN - of Bulgarian extraction - & his computer was a 100% AMERICAN invention. Notwithstanding, Attanasof was always proud of being of Bulgarian extraction.
@sbrazenor2
8 жыл бұрын
While I really appreciate the work that went into these kinds of machines, I think I'm going to stick with my 8-core 4GHz system. It's a little bit faster... But only just a little bit. This thing doesn't even have a GPU. :-\ How am I supposed to do important things on it, like play Fallout 4 and watch porn?
@Spacekriek
8 жыл бұрын
To start with, it obviously was not constructed to deal with either Fallout 4 or porn...
@sbrazenor2
8 жыл бұрын
I was making a sarcastic joke. I know it wasn't made for that.
@Lobos222
7 жыл бұрын
+Spacekriek. In other words, you are saying its useless! :D
@khroe
12 жыл бұрын
@alexcandy1411 Only in RL mode.
@n1csbg480
7 жыл бұрын
greetings from Bulgaria this pc is created and designed in Bulgaria and is from Bulgarian
@ehesportrajaneyy434
2 күн бұрын
Can it run gta v?
@ufoengines
9 жыл бұрын
Ran across this old patent 3190554 on a digital computer that ran on air. Wonder if anything was done with this idea.
@OffTheBeatenPath_
8 жыл бұрын
do you have to spam this comment on 100 videos?
@ufoengines
8 жыл бұрын
It can't be on 100 videos! I never got any sort of reply so I kept asking around. So I'll ask again, have you ever seen such and air computer? Event the Computer Museums don't seem to any info on this tech. Patent 3190554 . I'd also like to know if N.A.S.A. ever thought about using this in the manned missions.
@ValExperimenter
8 жыл бұрын
+ufoengines Pneumatic logic was commonplace in industrial applications though hardly as complex as a computer. Analogue pneumatic computers were also commonly used for control systems. I doubt that a pneumatic digital computer would have gained much interest for speed reasons.
@ufoengines
8 жыл бұрын
I was thinking that as a 3D printing project for some tech high school that designing/building a Turing Complete digital computing running on air would be a gas! Might get a little more speed if you ran it with helium. Also read somewhere that live crabs have been run though logic gates to demonstrate computation. However you might pull the same trick using brush bots. Kids would have to dig this. First you make up a whole bunch of brush bots and then run through a maze/logic gates to compute something. That would make a You Tube that I'd like for sure!
@david203
8 жыл бұрын
+ufoengines I don't know about that particular patent, but pneumatic computers were in use for years in industrial process control. They are slow and limited, but they work.
@TobermoryCat
14 жыл бұрын
but will it blend?
@user-rd5dd9nq4y
3 жыл бұрын
i am late
@leydisamaniegojibaja2252
5 жыл бұрын
Computacion ABC
@scowell
9 жыл бұрын
So I finally get to see it work... I don't see it as general purpose, though.
@david203
8 жыл бұрын
+scowell Can't be general purpose without being able to hold a program.
@michaelbauers8800
Жыл бұрын
@@david203 Hmm, to me general purpose just means you can program it generally, aka Turing complete. A computer can easily be turing complete, but the program is input, "on the fly" on some sort of offline storage, like cards, tape, whatever. People tend to use the term "stored program computer", when the compute program is stored in the computer's memory.
@david203
Жыл бұрын
@@michaelbauers8800 Yes. See the other comments for much the same information. Back in the beginnings of computer history there were many devices that were intended to solve different domains of problems. The range of programming and the ease of reprogramming increased over time. In this case, only systems of linear equations were solved, but the input was by punched cards instead of the more usual wiring boards. Special/General purpose are relative terms, and can be defined externally in terms of the range of problems solved and internally in terms of the functionality used to program and compute the results. There is no one "first computer", merely a large number of precursors to the modern Von Neumann architecture. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture .
@ryanch94
12 жыл бұрын
But does it blend?
@telescopereplicator
8 жыл бұрын
Why use a pocket calculator when you can take one of these to school............? And you will have the answer within a few hours, too ! Wow.....
@maschwab63
7 жыл бұрын
I punched cards for a class in 1982. And don't forget the hanging chads in Florida 2000 election recount.
@samisyosam
14 жыл бұрын
This thing can run crysis at 60fps.
@andersondelpino
8 жыл бұрын
so they made a machine that can do it slower then we can do by hand????
@Spacekriek
8 жыл бұрын
Atanasoff actually developed this computer back in the 1930's to help speed up the solving of complex equations. My guess is that it will still take you much longer today if you were to do it by hand.
@dbeierl
8 жыл бұрын
They made a machine that could solve sets of simultaneous equations that nobody would even attempt to do by hand, that was the point. Dr. Atanasoff needed to solve sets that were too complex for humans to attempt. It didn't bother him that it took a day to do each one, because they couldn't be done at all before.
@GenoSkill
13 жыл бұрын
can i put linux on this
@Pestilance32
14 жыл бұрын
Plays World of Warcraft like a dream.
@khroe
12 жыл бұрын
@ryanch94 It will, most likely, blend just about anything you throw into it.
@zarni000
11 жыл бұрын
it's the first digital computer. how do you expect it to be other than primitive?
@GH-oi2jf
5 жыл бұрын
zarni000 - Actually, the first electronic digital computer. Relay-based computers were earlier. And it was a special purpose machine.
@edgeeffect
8 жыл бұрын
computer? or just a calculator?
@frtard
8 жыл бұрын
+edgeeffect Of course not in the modern sense. But it is a programmable *compute*-r. A calculator would just do simple arithmetic, so a human would still have to sequence the operations to do any useful work, but this could be programmed to solve actual equations. This was a one kind of machine in it's time.
@edgeeffect
8 жыл бұрын
+frtard It wasn't programmable.. it could only solve simultaneous equations. plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history/#Atan
@frtard
8 жыл бұрын
edgeeffect Right. Like I said, it wasn't programmable in the modern sense of being Turing-complete; it would solve equations. It was different from a calculator in that it sequenced separate calculations; it didn't just do simple arithmetic. It *does* compute equations, though. I guess commonly accepted terminology doesn't make this point clear enough.
@edgeeffect
8 жыл бұрын
+NuggetOfBlueGold "A computer is a device that computes" is an over-simplistic definition based on the derivation of it's name and isn't particularly workable. At college, I remember, I was taught a quick and easy definition of what a computer really is - side stepping potentially complex concepts as Turing completeness: "A device for processing raw data into meaningful information under self-modifiable program control". When we're discussing computer history, we tend to waive a few of these requirements. We say it doesn't strictly haveto be self-modifying so that early stored-program computers like the Manchester MK 1 are "allowed" to be computers. We say the program doesn't necessarily have to be stored in the memory so that the the likes of ENIAC are "allowed in". The point at which just too many rules have been waived is what makes The Analytical Engine a computer but The Difference Engine “not a computer” and that is the requirement that it is PROGRAMMABLE. And this is the nub of Turing completeness... computers are general purpose machines that can perform different functions based on their software and the Atanasoff-Berry could only solve simultaneous equations and nothing else. Which makes it very nearly a computer but not quite. A calculator is a special-purpose computing device. But to be a computer it needs to be a GENERAL purpose computing device and part of that remit would, sadly, include the playing of games.
@Jeffrey314159
8 жыл бұрын
This was a 'Special Purpose Computer'! It performed simultaneous linear equations. It did not have a Stored Program. Its programmability was limited. It was not fully automated. It ROM sequencer was mechanical. Conclusion: It was not the first modern all-electronic general purpose fully & freely programmable digital computer..
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4 жыл бұрын
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