"Fan belts only exist, briefly, in the intervals between stars

Reviewing the informative Turing’s Cathedral

Programming the ENIAC, the world's first digital computer (US Army photo)

Book review

It's a full four years since it was published, but Reg contributor
Geoffrey G Rochat has finally gotten around to reading George Dyson's
worthy tome Turing’s Cathedral. He finds it's not just a Best Book
list lurker, but something actually worth reading."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/10/turing_cathedral_fan_belts_exist_briefly_in_the_intervals_between_stars/?page=1

Contains some discussion of level-based versus pulse-based logic in
early valve computers which is frankly way over my head but might be
of interest to some here.


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