So, not chipspeech actually but I wanted to show followers my little computer guys. I love personifying old mainframes and I have like 200 I want to do I just never get around to it.
The female programmers of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) - the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. ENIAC could be programmed to perform complex sequences of operations, including loops, branches, and subroutines. However, instead of the stored-program computers that exist today, ENIAC was just a large collection of arithmetic machines, which originally had programs set up into the machine by a combination of plugboard wiring and three portable function tables (containing 1,200 ten-way switches each).
Today is Valentine’s Day, which means we say a very special happy birthday to the ENIAC! Today, February 14th 2024, the first ever electric, programmable, general purpose digital computer turns 79 years old!
(Picture via University of Pennsylvania)
Completed in 1945, the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first computer to integrate all its features into one unit. The ENIAC took up more than 1,800 square feet and weighed over 27 ton, and was made up of 40 panels, 17,000 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, and over 5,000,000 hand-soldered joints. These numbers have gotten bigger over time, of course. Today, a single stick of 4gb RAM has somewhere in the ballpark of 32 billion capacitors.
The ENIAC could perform up to 5,000 additions or 50 multiplications per second, with a clock speed of around 100 kilohertz. It calculated trajectories 40 times faster than humans could. For additional context by modeling calculators, the classic Ti-84 plus (2004), one of the most used calculators to this day, has a clock speed of 15 megahertz, 150 times faster than the ENIAC.
The ENIAC was the first dive into digital calculators in the modern age, retired in 1955 at ten years old. And nearly eight decades later, we now carry devices with calculators in our pockets. The ENIAC was thousands of times bigger than the largest smartphones on the modern market, and part of it is on display at the University of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
ouhghhg im havinf thoughts again
i'm researching stuff for a project (it's about the ENIAC) and god she's beautiful i don't think i've ever gotten so bashful thinking about a computer before since i'm primarily attracted to other electronics or toys but. ouh
#Herstory #UnDíaComoHoy #KláraDánVonNeumann (Budapest, Hungría, 18/8/1911 - San Diego, California, 10/11/1963), #científica estadounidense #pionera de la #programación. Hija de Károly - Karl Dán y Camila Stadler. Su padre había servido anteriormente en el ejército austrohúngaro como oficial durante IGM, y se mudaron a Viena para huir de Bela Kun. No regresaron a Hungría hasta que el régimen fue derrocado. Su familia era rica y solía organizar fiestas en las que Dán pudo conocer a mucha gente de diferentes ámbitos. Con 14 años, fue campeona nacional de patinaje artístico, y poco después fue enviada a estudiar a un internado a Inglaterra. Estuvo casada en cuatro ocasiones, y después de su segundo divorcio, se casó con John von Neumann en 1938. Posteriormente, contrajo matrimonio con Carl Eckart en 1958. Murió en 1963 en extrañas circunstancias: tras abandonar una fiesta en honor a la ganadora del premio Nobel #MariaGoeppertMayer, Condujo desde su casa a la playa y se ahogó. Su cuerpo se halló en la playa de La Jolla. La policía consideró su muerte como un suicidio. Dán fue una de las primeras programadoras del mundo y ayudó a resolver problemas matemáticos usando código informático. Escribió el código utilizado en la máquina #MANIAC I desarrollada por John von Neumann y Julian Bigelow en el Laboratorio Nacional de Los Álamos. También estuvo implicada en el diseño de nuevos controles para la #ENIAC y era una de sus principales programadoras. Enseñó cómo programar a los científicos de aquella primera época. Escribió el prefacio de la influyente obra de John von Neumann Silliman Lectures, publicada póstumamente y más tarde editada y publicada por la editorial Yale University Press como "El ordenador y el cerebro". Aparece como una figura relevante en el libro de historia de la computación "La catedral de Turing: Los orígenes del universo digital" de George Dyson. #efemérides #cientificas #mujeresyciencia #womeninscience #educarenigualdad #educarenfeminismo #schooloffeminism https://www.instagram.com/p/CkxlgZ8jgTt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
"The Modern World" is a song collection representing the hypothetical scenario of entrapment in a permanent fog where every perspective vanishes as a consequence of the atavistic human instinct towards extinction which eludes any possibility of a better future.
A caustic hypothesis, but also close to reality; a stream of consciousness on today's dystopias fought by the saving force of music.
"In the first album that Fabio Battistetti publishes in the Asbestos Digit roster, a thousand suggestions take over from the first listen: the Wergo-style computer music of the Eighties, a hardcore version of the chiptune music that was all the rage in videogames thirty years ago, the cold restlessness of certain hypnagogic electronics and the anxiety of bewilderment that anthropocene man pretends not to feel. A necessary wide-eyed electronic hallucination". - Andrea Prevignano (nov. 2023)
The songs were composed through improvisation sessions by Fabio Battistetti between 2021 and 2022.
Fabio Battistetti: Teenage Engineering PO12, Rolard Tr6s, Ableton Live, Korg Kaosilator, Yamaha Reface YC
Home recorded, mixed and mastered in San Giovanni Ilarione (Verona), january 2021 to november 2022