On Thursday 25 March 2004 11:22 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:12, Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote:Don't forget Adia Agusta Lovelace she programmed it
If it wasn't for IBM you wouldn't be talking to us.If it wasn't for Babbage, none of us would be doing much of anything.
'cept maybe drinking more.
stephen kuhn - owner
Don't forget Harry flowers, PO engineer who built the worlds first programmable electronic computer in the modern accepted sense. The computer was called Colossus and was used to break the highest German teleprinter landline codes , used by the central german command . It used thousands of thermodic valves as switching devices, and used punched tape to run the codes. The task was a much harder than cracking the enigma codes which by comparison were childs play. He built it in Bletchley Park (station X) from about 1943 onwards and laid the foundation to computers as we know them today.Indeed modern computers are just his device with better switching devices, display techniques, and storage . John
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