Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/30
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Eric Welch wrote:
> That's funny. My uncle helped the U.S. Navy build a computer in '47.
The Manchester one was the first stored program computer completed on
21st of June 1948, see www.computer50.org/mark1/
Colossus was the first electronic valve computer, designed and built in
1943, and operational in 1944 two years ahead of ENIAC. See
www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~stu19/hum2e03/o'brien/humaniti/colos.htm
I mentioned Stockley Park in reference to this in an earlier message. This
was brain fade, I meant Bletchley Park.
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