The first computer was made in Southern England some considerable time ago.
It was, however, limited in performance due to low capacity and the
mechanical effort required to move each of the 40 tonne + granite blocks
used as binary indicators. However this computer is still in use today each
and every mid summer morning by the Druids of Stonehenge.
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Subject: RE: [OM] Further on technology (R&D)
Konrad Zuse made the first working program-controlled binary digital
computer in 1936-38, the Z1. The Z1 contained all parts of a modern
computer, e. g. control unit, memory, micro sequences, floating point
logic. See
http://home.t-online.de/home/horst.zuse/show_en.html
But the Z1 was mechanical. His later Z3 was the first all-electric one,
using relays for storage, completed in 1941.
His work was impeded by the bombing of Berlin. The Z1, Z2 and Z3 were
destroyed by bombs.
Tom
On Monday, August 05, 2002 at 3:39, Grigorov, Boris
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wrote re "RE: [OM] Further on technology (R&D" saying:
> The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital
> computer. It was built by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at
Iowa
> State University during 1937-42. ENIAC is a copy of it. Mauchly and
Eckert,
> the engineers who built ENIAC just stole the ideas. Can't blame the
> government for that one....
>
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