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SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU (Murph Sewall) writes:

>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.

I believe the dispute was over a patent for a single chip computer.
This would be worth lots of $$$.


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