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The ENIAC was NOT....repeat...was NOT the first electronic digital computer. The first was the Atanasoff Berry computer (ABC) created at Iowa State University 1937-1942 (see: http://www.cs.iastate.edu/jva/jva-archive.shtml)
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Your article isn't actually accurate - the first electronic digital computer was NOT the ENIAC but rather the ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer) in 1942 at Iowa State. (see below). Atanasoff never had any vision to use it, and ISU didn't either and it sat in a basement for years.
1942
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer is completed. Built at Iowa State College (now University), the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) was designed and built by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry between 1939 and 1942. While the ABC was never fully-functional, it won a patent dispute relating to the invention of the computer when Atanasoff proved that ENIAC co-designer John Mauchly had come to see the ABC shortly after it was completed
1942
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer is completed. Built at Iowa State College (now University), the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) was designed and built by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry between 1939 and 1942. While the ABC was never fully-functional, it won a patent dispute relating to the invention of the computer when Atanasoff proved that ENIAC co-designer John Mauchly had come to see the ABC shortly after it was completed
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Check out this link:
http://www.populartechnology.net/2012/06/truth-about-richard-muller.html