UCLA's 1948 Mechanical Computer
For those not following the Paleofuture blog, this might be interesting http://www.readability.com/articles/yt0ybia6
CHM had acquired pieces of this newsreel segment a while back and we made an edited version available last year at: http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/analog-computers/3/143 A segment from the General Electric in 1947 newsreel featuring the same machine is also available at the same Web page, courtesy of the GE archives at miSci. Considering the substantial licensing fees for the Popular Science episode, I am curious to learn where Gizmodo got the segment. Also, the UCLA DA is shown in the following feature films: Destination Moon (1950) When Worlds Collide (1951) Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) On Jul 23, 2013, at 3:37 AM, Bernardo Batiz-Lazo wrote: For those not following the Paleofuture blog, this might be interesting http://www.readability.com/articles/yt0ybia6 _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org<mailto:members@sigcis.org>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members — Alex Bochannek, Curator & Senior Manager Computer History Museum 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043 Phone: +1 650 810 1894 Twitter: @awbchm
The presentation implies that this Differential Analyzer came to UCLA a few years earlier. Before WW II there were DAs at MIT and the Aberdeen Proving Ground, but does anyone know how this one came to or was built at UCLA? I've never seen a video of a DA in operation, but this one seems more smoothly mechanized than those shown in still photos, certainly those of Bush with one at MIT. J. Presper Eckert worked under Professor Cornelius Weygandt to make the DA at Penn more electronic (before he switched over to work on the all-electronic ENIAC) but this UCLA machine seems to still be entirely electromechanical. Can anyone confirm or deny my suppositions or otherwise clarify the history of this machine? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernardo Batiz-Lazo" <bbatiz64@gmail.com> To: "sigcis" <members@sigcis.org> Cc: "Martha Poon" <M.Poon@lse.ac.uk> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:37:04 AM Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] UCLA's 1948 Mechanical Computer For those not following the Paleofuture blog, this might be interesting http://www.readability.com/articles/yt0ybia6 _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members
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