In 1944 the first "electric brain", an automatic machine for reasoning and calculating, began to work. In the years since then, thousands of such machines have been made. This development have become so important that it is often spoken of as the computer revolution... This report introduces such equipment. It describes BRAINIACS, small electric brain machines, "BRAIN-Imitating (I) Almost-Automatic (A) Computers (CS)". They are simple electrical machines which are able to calculate and reason automatically although they are too small to perform operations one after another automatically. They show, with only a small number of parts and inexpensive hardware provided in the accompanying Brainiac kit, the fascinating power and variety of computing and reasoning circuits...
Origine : Collection Mihadt J. GAZALE
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