#swac

"Wait, what's special about the SWAC, wasn't it just an early stored program computer?"

This is so funny to me, the author isn't coming out and saying SWAC is the first stored program computer, but there's definitely an implication of originality by tying it to modern PCs. I don't know how SWAC is more of a "why" for modern computing than EDVAC or IAS or Manchester Baby, or Whirlwind and the early MIT cohort for that matter if we're discussing functionality and not just architectural similarities (which have diverged anyway).

It seems straightforward that EDVAC and Manchester Baby have claim to the title of first stored program computer, depending on which you put more weight on, being started or completed.

First Draft Report on the EDVAC & IAS Machine certainly muddy the waters of "origins of modern computers" because that was the design that everyone & their mother copied. There's also EDSAC kicking around the field of nominees, because it's EDVAC finished before EDVAC...

But SWAC is such an out of left contender, I'm not sure what the connection is? If SWAC, why not SEAC, it was identical and completed a month earlier?

The paranoid part of my brain wonders if this is an attempt to locate the origins of modern computing in California to fit with the Silicon Valley tech mythos narrative, but I also don't want to say so because I have no evidence of that being the author's intent.

Maybe as a person who worked on SWAC he wanted an attention grabbing title for a project that's dear to him, but pointing out the correlation between SWAC & modern computers, not causality, would be the responsible way to go about that...

Cause the Disney Channel account posted a reel from the show a few days ago and in Demi’s recent TikTok livestream, Demi answered a question relating to SWAC’s ending and like ???

It just strikes me that this could be the beginning of ✨something✨ because they did a similar enough thing with Camp Rock 3 (bar all the news articles saying there was talks of a CR3 like but still).

I’m not going to pretend like this makes any sense but this is specifically for @tiaragloryart because she’s been asking me to make this supercut for eons 👍

TO CLARIFY EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS IS FOR THE BIT 😭

In short —these scenes remind me so much of each other (I scream as they drag me into the padded room)

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