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 Lecture begins at: https://youtu.be/Qmr-6qN-HC8?t=505 
 
-Shall we begin? The talk today is on software. Software got its name because hardware you could lay your hands on, software were the programs which told the machine what to do and they were somewhat soft. They got that name for this contrast with the hardware which you could lay your hands on because in the early days of machines people didn't really understand machines. Software is what tells the machine what you want done. That's some totalment. Now in the early days with hand calculators, you turned a crank, and you threw the carriage over and so on, and you controlled it by your hands. And the early IBM machines were plug boards. You put wires from the columns and the cards to where you wanted in the machine. From where the answers were in a machine to where you punched on the card or where you want it printed. We wired up single boards and in the accounting room for example, each operation would have a board. It would be stored away, so each week we went through the accounting process, you picked up the same boards. You didn't rewire them because they were rather troublesome to wire - to say the least. 
+Shall we begin? The talk today is on software. Software got its name because hardware you could lay your hands on, software were the programs which told the machine what to do and they were somewhat soft. They got that name for this contrast with the hardware which you could lay your hands on because in the early days of machines people didn't really understand machines. Software is what tells the machine what you want done. That's some "totalment" (sic). Now in the early days with hand calculators, you turned a crank, and you threw the carriage over and so on, and you controlled it by your hands. And the early IBM machines were plug boards. You put wires from the columns and the cards to where you wanted in the machine. From where the answers were in a machine to where you punched on the card or where you want it printed. We wired up single boards and in the accounting room for example, each operation would have a board. It would be stored away, so each week we went through the accounting process, you picked up the same boards. You didn't rewire them because they were rather troublesome to wire - to say the least. 
 
 Now after George Stibitz’s first machine. He used paper tape and paper tapes are a terrible thing to use. You can't make insertions very well. When you glue the tapes together, the glue gets stuck in the fingers of the readers and its troublesome but you won't see much anymore. The ENIAC in ’45 – ‘46 was the first electronic machine. And it was designed to do integration of ordinary differential equations for trajectories to build bombing tables or ballistic tables. Well, that was the design and so it was designed pretty much like a glorified IBM plug board except the machine was in a room about this big and the cables went all the way around on trails around the room.