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- 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
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- Message-ID: <janm.716230065@Dublin>
- References: <news@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <9209090702.AA17622@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1992Sep10.100458.22718@odin.diku.dk>
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- Organisation: CS Dept., Uppsala University, Sweden
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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).
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- 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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