{"id":6699,"date":"2018-01-24T18:37:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T18:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6699"},"modified":"2018-01-24T18:37:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T18:37:02","slug":"an-introduction-to-digital-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6699","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction to Digital Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/dhhumanist.org\/\">Humanist<\/a> there was an announcement from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagley.org\/\">Hagley Museum and Library<\/a>\u00a0that they had put up a 1969 Sperry-UNIVAC short film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagley.org\/librarynews\/introduction-digital-computers\">An Introduction to Digital Computers<\/a>. The 22 minute short is a dated, but interesting introduction to how a digital computer works. The short was sponsored by Sperry-UNIVAC which had its origins in the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation founded by Eckert and Mauchly of ENIAC fame.<\/p>\n<p>The museum is in Delaware at the site of E.I. du Pont gunpowder works from 1802. The Hagley library is dedicated to American enterprise and has archival material from Sperry-UNIVAC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hagley&#8217;s library furthers the study of business and technology in America. The collections include individuals&#8217; papers and companies&#8217; records ranging from eighteenth-century merchants to modern telecommunications and illustrate the impact of the business system on society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Humanist there was an announcement from the\u00a0Hagley Museum and Library\u00a0that they had put up a 1969 Sperry-UNIVAC short film An Introduction to Digital Computers. The 22 minute short is a dated, but interesting introduction to how a digital computer works. The short was sponsored by Sperry-UNIVAC which had its origins in the Eckert-Mauchly Computer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6699\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Introduction to Digital Computers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6700,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}