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Re: More Military Computing

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From: pris... Allen S. Firstenberg
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 17:06
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In article <1989Dec19....@IDA.ORG> rwex@IDA.ORG.UUCP (Richard Wexelblat) writes:
>In article <3024@mcgp1.UUCP> flak@mcgp1.UUCP (Dan Flak) writes:
>>Tulsa Approach Control still uses an ENIAC computer very similar to the 
>
>I'm disappointed that no one has yet commented on the above.  There was,
>of course, one (only) ENIAC, completed at the Moore School in the late
>40s and then eventually sent to the Aberdeen Proving Ground.  
>-- 
>--Dick Wexelblat  (rw...@ida.org) 703 824 5511
>  Hack mir nisht kein chaynik.

And then, of course, it was on display in the Smithsonian Museum of American
History.  (or at least parts of it were)  I know it was there 4 years ago, but
when I went to visit it this summer, that exhibit had been replaced.

So now i assume that its somewhere in the basement...

BCNU
Priz
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From: pris...@pawl.rpi.edu (Allen S. Firstenberg)
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Subject: Re: More Military Computing
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Date: 21 Dec 89 17:06:23 GMT
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