In mid 2014, I began to study the ENIAC in order to support the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn for their special exposition on women in computing.

Here you will find the papers I prepared that finally resulted in a real-size panel for hands-on experience of the visitors.

They are all in German; if you would like an English version, drop me a note, please

To write down what I had learned about the ENIAC, I first wrote a very technical paper called ENIAC Demonstrator. A large part is about example programs and how they were plugged.

Next, I proposed three variants of different complexity of a single panel demonstrator: eniac-funktionsattrappe_v0.1.pdf. The museum decided to build the simplest one, although it was not able to demonstrate the programming method used.

Then, I wrote a short paper concerning the electronic and software design: eniac-attrappensteuerung.pdf.

Finally, a user's guide was prepared, including more detailled specifications of the software: eniac-akkuattrappe_anleitung.pdf. If you have a chance to use the machine finally built, you will observer that the software was not exactly built to my specification.