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Article #103Re: Who's On First and Historical Correctness
From: Peter Gorny
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:29
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:29
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smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith) writes: >I think it should be clear by now that regardless of who did what >"first" in computers, there were lots of creative people chasing >the same goals at roughly the same time. The technologies had [....] Another example is Konrad Zuse, who started with building computing machines in 34, had his first electrical one running in 39 and the first electronic one in 44. Since he worked in Germany and his achieve- ments were at once used for military purposes, he did not publish anything before several years after world war II. His first post war computer with a broader market was ZUSE 22 (1960), built in his own factory - later bought up by bigger companies and today part of Siemens. Peter Gorny
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!unido!uniol!Peter.Gorny From: Peter.Gorny@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Peter Gorny) Newsgroups: comp.org.acm Subject: Re: Who's On First and Historical Correctness Message-ID: <1992Apr15.183841.4053@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de> Date: 15 Apr 92 18:29:27 GMT References: <11397@ksr.com> <DAB.92Apr10121110@moxie.moxie.oswego.edu> <1992Apr10.183002.5425@sctc.com> <1992Apr11.184214.13375@athena.mit.edu> <1992Apr14.074920.1436@geosys.co.uk> <1992Apr15.152445.5780@sctc.com> Sender: news@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de Distribution: comp Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany Lines: 17