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A virtual reality simulator of the ENIAC

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 36, Issue 3

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1026487.1008069

Published: 28 June 2004 Publication History

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The ENIAC was designed and built at the University of Pennsylvania between 1943 and 1946 and is one of the world's first general-purpose programmable electronic computers. It occupied a 40 x 60 foot room, weighed 30 tons, and was programmed using knobs, switches, and cables. This poster describes the development of a virtual reality simulator of the ENIAC that permits students to program the ENIAC and see it operate.

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Harms, D., and Berque, D., Using a PDP-11/10 to Teach Content and History in Computer Organization Courses, Proceedings of the 32nd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2001, pp. 209--213.

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A virtual reality simulator of the ENIAC
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    1. History of computing
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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 36, Issue 3

September 2004

280 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1026487

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ITiCSE '04: Proceedings of the 9th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
June 2004
296 pages
ISBN:1581138369
DOI:10.1145/1007996
Conference Chair:
Roger Boyle
University of Leeds, UK
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Program Chairs:
Martyn Clark
University of Leeds, UK
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Amruth Kumar
Ramapo College of NJ

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