On Monday 07 November 2005 22:04, pelibali wrote:
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 03:16:09 +0100
Anders Johansson <.> wrote:
But don't forget Konrad Zuse (not to be mistaken with suse) who made the first ever digital computer, completed in 1938
If he prepared the first computer, then what should Dr. Google write on the Hungarian "Neumann Janos" ?!
That he invented the computer architecture used in most modern machines, where the program is stored in the data space itself, commonly known as von Neumann architecture.. But that was almost a decade later 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 There are many firsts