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Old 08-25-2009, 12:10 AM   #191 (permalink)
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The University of Pennsylvania is not a country, so I wasn't trying to attribute it to a country I was only relaying a fact that I heard. This is how I see it, you are the one who is fighting over semantics, so what if I said computer or electronic computer. Why do I have to explain the etymology of the word "computer." The way "computer" is used today no one ever thinks of a person who does computations, a mechanical computer, or an elctro-mechanical computer. The University of Pennsylvania is attributed to the concept, developement and construction of the first computer, in fact the C stands for "computer" in ENIAC ("Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer")

btw Nikola Tesla was an American citizen!
You don't have to explain the etymology of the word computer. It still doesn't change the fact that there were electronic computers around before ENIAC. Have a look at the table here.

You mentioned American ingenuity before and that sounded to me like referring to a country.

Yes, Nikola Tesla was an American citizen. And so was Claude Shannon and many of the pioneers I listed earlier. My point is that the Americans did not invent the computer, ENIAC wasn't the first electronic computer, ENIAC wasn't very crucial on the scale of things, the computer is more of an international development than an invention, and as much as you want to, you can't discount the contributions of the Brits to computing.
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Old 08-25-2009, 12:13 AM   #192 (permalink)
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Old 08-25-2009, 12:25 AM   #193 (permalink)
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Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems...
When ENIAC was announced in 1946 it was heralded in the press as a "Giant Brain". It boasted speeds one thousand times faster than electro-mechanical machines, a leap in computing power that no single machine has since matched.
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Old 08-25-2009, 12:29 AM   #194 (permalink)
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Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems...
When ENIAC was announced in 1946 it was heralded in the press as a "Giant Brain". It boasted speeds one thousand times faster than electro-mechanical machines, a leap in computing power that no single machine has since matched.
Not the first computer.

Not the first electronic computer

But the first general-purpose electronic computer.


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Old 08-25-2009, 12:32 AM   #195 (permalink)
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Annnnnddd wrong again.
Refine your search criteria and DON'T pick the first wiki article that comes up that happens to have the name ENIAC in it.

The claim was "first electronic computer"... leave the "general purpose" part out of it....
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Old 08-25-2009, 12:47 AM   #196 (permalink)
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Old 08-25-2009, 12:53 AM   #197 (permalink)
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Old 08-25-2009, 01:17 AM   #198 (permalink)
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