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On 7 Sep 92 23:55:42 GMT Jake Blues said:
>	Hello all.  I remember reading that there was some dispute as to
>who invented the digital computer, and that a court case was ongoing that
>could have wide-reaching consequences to the industry.  Does anyone have
>any more info on that?  Has the court case been resolved?  Who won?

Offhand, I say the first caveman who counted on her digits (fingers ;-)


Seriously, I've always considered the Jacquard Loom the first digital
computer, but someone can perhaps find an earlier example.  The earliest
"electronic brain" I know of was the ENIAC project in 1946 which was an
example of your tax dollars at work.  I believe that technology was an
is available to almost anyone.

I seem to recall a legal action over some fundamental component of
current computing technology, but I don't remember the details.