medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Sorry to contradict you, but my husband's memory is as follows:
U of Pennsylvania built one of the first electronic calculating machines.
Part of it is in the entrance area (or it was when my husband went there
some years ago). Of course the UK had similar stuff going on at Bletchley
[Enigma etc.] but it was held back from public knowledge for years (1970s I
think), by the Official Secrets Act. A book on Leo (the Lyons Electronic
Office) mentions this.
These early machines didn't have everything that we normally associate with
the modern computer: stored programmes in the same memory as the data being
manipulated being the key.
The Manchester baby machine [on which my husband's D.Phil supervisor worked]
had these properties and ran a program before any other machine. See
http://www.computer50.org/
So it is the first modern computer.
Anne
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I am sorry, my server seems to playing games tonight. As you know the
computer
was invented at Penn during the early 50's and the Dean brushes aside all
questions as to whether or not the original one is still in use.
Let me try that picture again.
V. Kerry Inman
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