The Man Who Invented the Computer Part 8

Chapter Eleven.

1 "I just wasn't sophisticated enough": Robert Mather, quoted in Mollenhoff, p. 118.

2 "I'm not sure we could have reconstructed the ABC": Gustafson, personal communication, April 2010.

3 "a rather delightful fellow": Sam Legvold, quoted in Mollenhoff, p. 119.

4 "The center portion of this letter": Mollenhoff, p. 120.

5 "that when you got into administrative work": Ibid., p. 126.

6 "had practically accused me of plagiarizing": Mauchly, quoted in Mollenhoff, p. 126.

7 "Dr. Mauchly came to Ames": Mollenhoff, p. 127.

8 "Do you contend that I read the book?": Mauchly, Dodds, and Atanasoff, quoted in Mollenhoff, p. 127.

9 "The 827 patent": Ibid., p. 128.

10 "Our lawyers don't want me to remember anything": Ibid., p. 130.

11 "Mr. Dodds, in the face": Ibid., p. 129.

12 "that Dr. Mauchly was": Atanasoff quoted in Mollenhoff, p. 131.

13 "perform all kinds": Ibid., p. 138.

14 "He made a huge mistake": Ibid., p. 187.

15 "little computing device": McCartney, p. 187.

16 "boiled down to": Ibid., p. 189.

17 "I'm thinking about the condensers": Mollenhoff, p. 158.

18 "the box would then yield": Ibid.

19 "He seemed to follow in detail": Atanasoff, quoted in Mollenhoff, p. 165.

20 "Immediately after commencement here": Mauchly, quoted in Mollenhoff, p. 167.

21 "computing machines may be conveniently cla.s.sified": Ibid., p. 191.

22 "consumed over 135 days": Ibid., p. 201.

23 "that there is no difference": Honeywell, Inc., quoted in Mollenhoff, p. 203.

24 "Between 1937 and 1942": Section 3 of Judge Earl Larson's opinion in Honeywell, Inc. vs. Sperry Rand Corp., et al., October 19, 1973, section 4, quoted in Mollenhoff, pp. 26567.

25 "as a result of this visit": Ibid., section 18, quoted in Mollenhoff, p. 267.

26 "work on the ENIAC": Ibid., p. 213.

Chapter Twelve.

1 "In the 1980s": Epstein, http://www.k9ape.com/publicservice/Who%20Invented%20The%20Computer.html.

2 "Scott struggles hard on the Atanasoff saga": JBartik, http://www.amazon.com/ENIAC-Triumphs-Tragedies-Worlds-Computer/product-reviews/0425176444/ref=cm_cr_pr_ink_next_5?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&pageNumber=5&sortBy=%20bySubmissionDateDescending.

3 "Jean Bartik was a fountain of information": McCartney, p. 253.

4 "Vincent ... wants me to walk": Iva Atanasoff, quoted in Burton, p. 266.

5 "One fourth of the time": Ibid.

6 "I hear them": John Atanasoff, quoted in Burton, p. 268.

7 "Atanasoff's principles": Arthur Burks and Alice Rowe Burks, quoted in Burton, p. 257.

8 "for his invention of": Citation, 1990 Medal of Technology, quoted in Burton, p. 269.

9 "The ABC replica took three years": Gustafson, interview, February 22, 2010.

10 "Mauchly was the only person": c.o.x, interview, February 22, 2010.

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