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Devils Advocaat wrote:

On Feb 8, 1:53*pm, "Thomas R. Kettler" wrote:
In article
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*Devils Advocaat wrote:
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.
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"Devils *wrote

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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.

How do you classify Babbage's machine then?

Are you referring to his Analytical Engine?

Sadly he never got to building it, and only one other person
understood his ideas.

That was Ada Lovelace who actually prepared a program to run on it,
using punched cards.

Presently a team at the Science Museum in London, UK are working on
building this behemoth.

If he had managed to build it in his day, I would have to most
definitely say it was the first programmable - albeit only mechanical
- computer.

According to the following, Difference Engines based on Babbage's
designs were built in the 1850's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine
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