Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz!virtue!hamish From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Message-ID: <194.25eab74c@waikato.ac.nz> Date: 27 Feb 90 04:53:14 GMT Lines: 15 Who is the anti social pervert that doesn't know his history of computers that goes under the name JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu? 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). PS Ada, Countess of Lovelace also wasn't american. (Otherwise she can't have been a countess! Hamish Marson hamish@waikato.ac.nz