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The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC), constructed between 1939 and 1942 at Iowa State College, is widely regarded as the world's first electronic digital computer. The ABC incorporated forward-looking features such as binary arithmetic, regenerative...
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The Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC) was the first electronic digital computing device.[1] Conceived in 1937, the machine was capable of solving up to 29 simultaneous linear equations and was successfully tested, though its input/output mechanism was...


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The Washington Post
Honoring the Father of the Computer, 50 Years Later
11/26/1990: 778 words, approx. 3 pages
At a little-noted White House ceremony Nov. 13, President Bush stepped off the platform to present a National Medal of Technology to an 87-year-old man named John V. Atanasoff whose work has changed the world, but whose recognition for it has been long and...
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The Boston Globe
A Long, Fast Drive Into Computer History
04/20/1987: 989 words, approx. 3 pages
One night in the winter of 1937, a young theoretical physicist from Iowa State University at Ames got into his car and drove at top speed along the dark highways of the prairie. It was a way of relieving his weariness and depression....
 


 

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