[RTTY] Call For Papers--2004 Digital Communications Conference

[Kok Chen]

On Apr 6, 2004, at 8:36 AM, llindblom at 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