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Notes
133 “Tell me, Walter”: Wulforst, Breakthrough, p.163. Fuldheim was the station’s evening
news anchor, and the interview took place on 16 October 1952. (Wulforst letter to the author, 23 May 1984.)
135 “No attempt has been made to make provision”: Stern, From ENIAC to UNIVAC, p.75.
136 “when along came von Neumann”: Goldstine, The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann, p. 182.
137 “We started with our basic ideas”: Mauchly, “Amending the ENIAC Story,” p. 217.
“Like a child with a new toy”: Ibid.
138 “It was, I think, a pretty sad spectacle”:Stern, From ENIAC to UNIVAC, p. 23.
145 “gross indecency”: Hodges, Alan Turing, p.458. Turing’s crime was “Gross Indecency contrary to Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.”
149 “When [the machine was] first built”: Campbell-Kelly, “Programming the Mark I,” p. 134. See also Hodges, Alan Turing, p. 385.
151 “assign his rights in the patent”: Stern, From ENIAC to UNIVAC, p. 159.
“Under this view the University”: Ibid., pp. 49-50.
156 “There will never be enough problems “:Ibid., p. 111.
158 “I find it difficult to say much “: Ibid., p. 105.
160 “BINAC seemed to operate well”: Ibid., p. 128.
164 “The trouble with machines “: “The Machine Vote, ” Newsweek, 17 November 1952, p. 64.