<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 10, 2017, at 8:01 AM, Brian Berg <<a href="mailto:brianberg@gmail.com" class="">brianberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">A new story by John Markoff posted as a blog to the Computer History Museum's website. I did not find anything about this in the Thomas Haigh, <i class="">et al.</i> book <i class="">ENIAC in Action</i> book. Brian Berg</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12px;font-size:2.074em;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(26,26,26);padding:0px;zoom:1;clear:both;overflow:hidden" class=""><a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/unprogramming-the-eniac-lehmer-childs-play/" class="">“Unprogramming” the ENIAC: Lehmer Child’s Play</a></h1></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote>This article gives background on the program that Derick and Emma Lehmer were working on that weekend:</div><div><blockquote class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><br class="">Liesbeth De Mol, Maarten Bullynck. A Week-End Off: The First Extensive Number-Theoretical Computation on the ENIAC. Lecture notes in computer science, springer, 2008, 5028, pp.158-167. <10.1007/978-3-540-69407-6 19>. <hal-01396832></blockquote><blockquote class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://hal.univ-lille3.fr/hal-01396832" class="">http://hal.univ-lille3.fr/hal-01396832</a></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Also, in the second photograph, Lehmer is on the left, not the right. (I’ve reported this to Markoff.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paul McJones</div></body></html>