Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!mailrus!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!seeger From: seeger@beach.cis.ufl.edu (F. L. Charles Seeger III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Look & Feel (Was: PK vs ARC) Message-ID: <18208@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 15 Sep 88 14:12:59 GMT References: <8851@cup.portal.com> <6085@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <613@unisv.UUCP> <5525@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: seeger@beach.cis.ufl.edu (F. L. Charles Seeger III) Organization: UF EE Dept Lines: 16 In article <5525@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> u-word!egs@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Eric Schnoebelen) writes: |No, not Univac. The Gentlemen who brought you the Eniac, got at least |some of their ideas from a gentleman name Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff, at |Iowa State University ( then Iowa State College ) in 1941. Dr. Atanasoff |built the first electronic digital computer at Iowa State between 1939 |and 1941, with the help of graduate student Clifford Berry. See | |( if you hadn't guessed, I am an ISU alumni.. ) | | Eric Schnoebelen But, Dr. Atanasoff is a Univ. of Florida Gator graduate. We can't let ISU get all the credit. 8^) Go Gators Chuck