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Oral history interview with John W. Mauchly
Mauchly describes his involvement with the ENIAC and EDVAC computers in this interview. Mauchly explains how his work in the 1930s on weather statistics led him to experiment with electronic calculating devices, and how this became an active project when he joined the Moore School of Engineering faculty in 1941. Mauchly recounts his early conversations with J. Presper Eckert on the feasibility of replacing electromechanical relays with thousands of vacuum tubes. He then turns to the Army's funding of the ENIAC computer for use in preparing firing tables, and the important role of Herman Goldstine in securing funding.
- "Mauchly describes his involvement with the ENIAC and EDVAC computers in this interview. Mauchly explains how his work in the 1930s on weather statistics led him to experiment with electronic calculating devices, and how this became an active project when he joined the Moore School of Engineering faculty in 1941. Mauchly recounts his early conversations with J. Presper Eckert on the feasibility of replacing electromechanical relays with thousands of vacuum tubes. He then turns to the Army's funding of the ENIAC computer for use in preparing firing tables, and the important role of Herman Goldstine in securing funding."@en
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