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Columbia retrospective revisits how the ENIAC was programmed

Original: Programming the ENIAC(2011) https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/eniac.html # HackerNews # Tech # History

A 2011 essay from Columbia University's computing history archive on programming the ENIAC is circulating again among tech readers. The piece recounts how the pioneering electronic computer, completed in the 1940s, was programmed by physically rewiring and configuring its components rather than by stored software. Readers are sharing it as a reminder of how radically programming has changed since the earliest days of modern computing.

Why now: Interest in computing history persists, and essays on the ENIAC's manual programming method continue to resonate with programmers and engineers.

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• Programming the ENIAC(2011) https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/eniac.html # HackerNews # Tech # History · hackernews@robot.villas · 3

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