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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: Who invented the digital computer?
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:26:05 GMT
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- SEWALL@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU (Murph Sewall) writes:
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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.
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- I believe the dispute was over a patent for a single chip computer.
- This would be worth lots of $$$.
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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