Apart from science fictional drawings, this is believed to be the first cartoon about an existing computer. Drawn by Franklin Osborne Alexander for the Philadelphia Bulletin, it was published March 12, 1946, within the first month of the announcement of the ENIAC. It shows United States Treasury secretary John W. Snyder and two other men inspecting the ENIAC. The paper reads: "Umpty-ump hundreds of wage-price ratios." During the 1950s, George Lichty drew dozens of computer cartoons for his syndicated Grin and Bear It.
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My father worked on the ENIAC's switching systems after his WW2 radar work for Bell Labs
ReplyDeleteI added more about ENIAC. Now if I could only find one of those George Lichty computer cartoons.
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