V

Vacuum tubes

calculating and, 110
first machine to calculate with, 116
switches, 94 (see also ENIAC)
transistor replacement of, 230

Valentine, Don, 279
Vector Graphic, 275
Venrock Associates, 280
Verea, Ramon, 7980
Vickers, Harry 21718
Von Boyneburg, Johann Christian, 31
Von Freytag Loringhoff, Bruno Baron, 1922
Von Neumann, John, 130, 136, 212

background of, 138139
design of EDVAC and, 13942
EDVAC patent and, 13942
ENIAC and, 13637
IAS computer and, 15455
“Report on EDVAC” and, 14041, 222

Von Schonborn, Johann Philipp, 31