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From: murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu (William J. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: <None>
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Date: 16 Mar 90 14:37:36 GMT
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Reply-To: murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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>The statement that americans invented the computer is totally 
>and completely
>WRONG!
>
>Charles Babbage (Of the analytical engine) was ENGLISH! Not 
>a yank, not even on
>the wrong side of the Atlantic (Or the Pacific).
Is this the same analytical engine that was never finished?  Sounds like
Babbage was worse off than NewTek and the Video Toaster. 8^) 8^)

Usually a computer is thought of in terms of a modern digital computer.
The inventor (patent holder) of the first digital computer is John Vincent
Atanasoff.  He invented a digital computing machine to handle linear equations.
John Mauchley built ENIAC later than the Atanasoff Berry Computer.  

For any Iowa State University graduate in physics, you can't help but be
reminded of JVA's achievement every time you enter the front door of the 
physics building.

Cheers,
-- 
 Bill Murphy                          murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu
Enjoying my Amiga 2000, but holding out for a real computer: The Amiga 3000!!