Does Not Compute

Herman Heine Goldstine, who directed the Army’s efforts to build ENIAC, the first electronic digital computer, died at the age of 90. Goldstine had been an ordnance mathematician when he began working on the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, which when completed after 30 months and 200,000 man-hours, had 18,000 vacuum tubes, measured 30 by 60 feet and weighed 30 tons, said the man who wrote this using a laptop while reclining on the couch.