On Tuesday 15 Jan 2013 14:48:56 Graeme Gemmill wrote: > On 15/01/13 12:00, [email protected] wrote: > > Re: The Latest Linux Powered Device > > Sorry Sean, but the first electronic computer, ENIAC, 1946, was created > to generate ballistic tables for the US artillery....
Sorry Graeme, but the first electronic computer was Colossus, which was created to decode the German Lorenz messages in 1943 (see http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/lorenz/index.htm). Still a military application, but British, not American. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-02-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
