On Apr 6, 2004, at 8:36 AM, llindblom@juno.com wrote:
Des Moines, IA wild! I've never thought of Des Moines as a hot bed of
technical knowledge beyond the bio - tech arena. I am only a few
miles east of Des Moines and know the it fairly well, if anyone has
questions about the area.
Never sell Iowa short, Larry! The first ever electronic digital
computer was constructed by Atanasoff at that little college near Des
Moines. Yep, the courts gave the patent to Iowa State and not to the
ENIAC.
The first -digital- computer though, was probably Babbage's, done with
wheels and gears. Antanasoff used vacuum tube gates and flip-flops
(not the political kind :-).
73
Chen, W7AY
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