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- From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU (Murph Sewall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
- Subject: Re: Who invented the digital computer?
- Message-ID: <9209090702.AA17622@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 06:49:33 GMT
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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 ;-)
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- 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.
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- I seem to recall a legal action over some fundamental component of
- current computing technology, but I don't remember the details.
-