On Feb 8, 2:14*am, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
Disculpa Senora Devils Advocaat, pero did you really mime the following
* on 2/7/2012 6:25 PM???

On Feb 7, 10:58 pm, "The Undead Edward M. *wrote:
"Devils *wrote

snip

Why the snippage?

The first electronic programmable computer - the Colossus - was
British built in 1943.

The first American computer of the same sort wasn't fully operational
until 1945.

Okay, "useful versions" applies here.

Indeed, the Brits had a working system before the Americans.

Bullshit - have you heard of the EINAC? It was developed at Penn State
University, in my home sate of Pennsylvania. *That was teh first
computer that actually worked. I'm not sure what this Collosal that you
talk about is - a quick check on Wikipedia reveals nothing about it.

ENIAC wasn't operational until 1946.

The computer I mentioned was called Colossus not Collosal.

You will find the Mark 1 Colossus was up and running in 1943.

And the Mark 2 in 1944.

Everything since then has merely been developments based on those
previous devices.

As it happens if such developments hadn't taken place your development
of computer networks and bulletin boards which led to the emergence of
the Internet, chatrooms and newsgroups would never have arisen.

Well then I think we should give all the credit to the inventor of the
vaccuum tube diode.

Indeed you should. Claiming your country did all that stuff in
splendid isolation is sheer arrogance.

Dude. Really!

Nobody claims "splendid isolation" as you put it. *America has always
attracted immigrants in droves (yes, even from Ye Olde Englande), and we
are the first to admit that they have helped mightily with all the stuff
we Americans have done. *But do give credit where credit is due, man -
it's gracious to do so.

Goalpost shifting I see, you never mentioned the help others gave your
country before, so you hold take your own advice of giving credit
where it is due.

And why snip and ignore both beginning and end of my last post?

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