Overview: Provides a detailed and richly documented account of a unique technological undertaking in the newly-born State of Israel.Was, unlike most of the early computer projects, privately financed, mainly by.The book tells the unique story of WEIZAC, an early computer built by a “new nation” in the early 1950s. It was created in Israel, even though the feasibility of this project was actually close to null when it was initially conceived, in 1946, and, unlike most of the early computer projects, was privately financed mainly by the Jewish world community. The book draws on a wealth of docum
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