Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Allen <gorebofh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 05:11:11PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 November 2005 4:59 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > Besides, I didn't say "first computer", I said "first digital computer".
> > I believe the first "computers" were designed by Pascal (automatic adding
> > machine) and Leibniz (automatic multiplying machine) in the 1600s and
> > 1700s respectively. The first computer that was somewhat general purpose
> > was probably the analytical engine of Charles Babbage in the 1800s
> Try BCE long before Blaise Pascal and Charles Babbage. 
> IMHO, Konrad Zuse does not get the credit he really deserves. I do believe 
> that he was the first to implement a program controlled computer, predating 
> von Neumann by a few years, but Zuse's work was destroyed during WWII. 

Egypt had Computers thousands of years ago. Not like modern of course, but
they could computer astrology and things. I've seen one.

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