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- From: ddabay@ruacad.ac.runet.edu (Dave Dabay)
- Subject: Re: Who invented the digital computer?
- Message-ID: <BuDp02.75p@ruacad.ac.runet.edu>
- Organization: Radford University
- References: <news@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <9209090702.AA17622@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:02:26 GMT
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- In article <9209090702.AA17622@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 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.
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- In the september QST (Ham Radio Magazine)
- there is a very good article on this topic....
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- check it out and let us know....I don't think the Army and the BRL eniac
- will ultimately win out on the "invention" of the digital computer tho..
-
- regards
-
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