Thursday, December 17, 2020 9:49:43 PM
"the world's first digital computer"
The world's first electronic digital computer.
There have been mechanical digital computers for centuries. Dating back to at least the idea of a mechanical difference engine by Babbage.
And then there were many mechanical calculators - which are digital computers of a sort - you just use mechanical force to drive them.
Butt ENIAC (or other - this is CONtested) was/were the first programmable Turing-style general computers.
Hollerith might claim his card sorter was the first programmable digital computer though.
The world's first electronic digital computer.
There have been mechanical digital computers for centuries. Dating back to at least the idea of a mechanical difference engine by Babbage.
And then there were many mechanical calculators - which are digital computers of a sort - you just use mechanical force to drive them.
Butt ENIAC (or other - this is CONtested) was/were the first programmable Turing-style general computers.
Hollerith might claim his card sorter was the first programmable digital computer though.
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