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by Mxtetris 2587 days ago
See also this work-in-progress ENIAC simulator: https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/eniac/
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An interesting fact of ENIAC is, although it was originally programmed by plugboards in 1946, it was soon retrofitted to a stored-program computer in 1948 to simplify programming, using its spare function table units as ROM, and its extra accumulators as a program counter and a pointer. I wonder if there's any project to recreate an ENIAC simulation in stored-program mode.
For anyone interested in this period, there's a book on the stored-program ENIAC: http://eniacinaction.com/