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Article #296Re: Who invented the digital computer?
From: Jan Mattsson
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:47
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:47
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torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen) writes: >The British Collossus computer built by Turing in 1943 was before >ENIAC, but it is now fairly widely accepted that the first >*electronic* digital computer was developed by J.V. Atanasoff and C.E. >Berry at Iowa University in 1939-1942. (mechanical adders and >multipliers are far older and electro-mechanical devices were already >in use at that time). According to Hodges' Turing biography Turing had very little to do with Colossus. It was electronic and digital, but its programmability was somewhat limited. -- Jan Mattsson, CS student, Uppsala University, Sweden janm@bern.docs.uu.se or janm@minsk.docs.uu.se
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!corax.udac.uu.se!Dublin.docs.uu.se!janm From: janm@Dublin.docs.uu.se (Jan Mattsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: Who invented the digital computer? Date: 11 Sep 92 16:47:45 GMT Organization: Uppsala University Lines: 17 Message-ID: <janm.716230065@Dublin> References: <news@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <9209090702.AA17622@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1992Sep10.100458.22718@odin.diku.dk> Reply-To: janm@bern.docs.uu.se NNTP-Posting-Host: dublin.docs.uu.se Organisation: CS Dept., Uppsala University, Sweden