"World's First Computer"
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Um...maybe not. I'd be tempted to throw the Jacquard Loom[^] into the picture: programmable, digital, working (and still in use in some places) - invented in 1801 - and kick started the Industrial Revolution.
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I thought "computer" was the keyword. :)
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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I thought "computer" was the keyword. :)
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
You can program it, it has input and output - heck, it's even got a graphics display(if a bit low resolution, unless it is working with really fine silk). What does a computer do that this doesn't? (Apart from play Doom :laugh: )
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You can program it, it has input and output - heck, it's even got a graphics display(if a bit low resolution, unless it is working with really fine silk). What does a computer do that this doesn't? (Apart from play Doom :laugh: )
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I was going to say that you can't use it for calculations, but I know it would hit back on me. You probably could play Doom on it, even if very slowly. So, what's the definition of Computer?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Here we go:[](Americas First Computer)http://www.wired.com/2014/11/eniac-unearthed While we think 'the world' of Americans, they really must resist being so inbred; the World's First Computer was Collossus at Bletchley Park, or even Charles Babbage's 'Difference Engine'. There there. Eniac was America's First Computer. :laugh:
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Keith Barrow wrote:
indigenous populations
Even they came over on the B Ark.
Nice to know we're all descended from prehistoric hairdressers, account executives, and telephone sanitizers, huh?
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You can program it, it has input and output - heck, it's even got a graphics display(if a bit low resolution, unless it is working with really fine silk). What does a computer do that this doesn't? (Apart from play Doom :laugh: )
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I was going to say that you can't use it for calculations, but I know it would hit back on me. You probably could play Doom on it, even if very slowly. So, what's the definition of Computer?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Here we go:[](Americas First Computer)http://www.wired.com/2014/11/eniac-unearthed While we think 'the world' of Americans, they really must resist being so inbred; the World's First Computer was Collossus at Bletchley Park, or even Charles Babbage's 'Difference Engine'. There there. Eniac was America's First Computer. :laugh:
Interesting article. I've seen the one at the Smithsonian, it's pretty cool.
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The first "modern" computer build the german civil engineer Konrad Zuse. A memorial in Berlin (Germany) .
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I was going to say that you can't use it for calculations, but I know it would hit back on me. You probably could play Doom on it, even if very slowly. So, what's the definition of Computer?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
I don't know! Google defines it as: "an electronic device which is capable of receiving information (data) in a particular form and of performing a sequence of operations in accordance with a predetermined but variable set of procedural instructions (program) to produce a result in the form of information or signals." But Wiki says: "A computer is a general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically. Since a sequence of operations can be readily changed, the computer can solve more than one kind of problem." And I have to say that the google definition is closer to my ideal! But...the "electronic" bit would exclude the Jacquard Loom - and also the Babbage Difference Engine. Removing that would remove Ada Lovelace from the role of "first programmer" and I'm pretty sure she deserves that title! So my feeling is that the Google definition (sans one word) fits a computer well - and also the loom. You have to remember that all out modern computers are based on devices which worked solely from punched cards - which started life as a data storage media, which were derived from the loom! :laugh: As usual, the "Search for Beginnings" is complicated...
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OriginalGriff wrote:
What does a computer do that this doesn't? (Apart from play Doom :laugh: )
We can't say for sure if we didn't try. The result would be one of a kind cloth :D
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
I think the ping time would make it kinda difficult to play! :laugh:
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
So, what's the definition of Computer?
A machine that makes humans waste their lives arguing about semantics. ;)
Must resist upvoting... Failed again. :)
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Nice to know we're all descended from prehistoric hairdressers, account executives, and telephone sanitizers, huh?
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Oh, put a towel on it.
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Here we go:[](Americas First Computer)http://www.wired.com/2014/11/eniac-unearthed While we think 'the world' of Americans, they really must resist being so inbred; the World's First Computer was Collossus at Bletchley Park, or even Charles Babbage's 'Difference Engine'. There there. Eniac was America's First Computer. :laugh:
Leslie[^] ;) Kent beat you to it. Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Higher Order Programming
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Nice to know we're all descended from prehistoric hairdressers, account executives, and telephone sanitizers, huh?
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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Hmm, lets see. Z3 was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer. (1941) Colossus is the world's first electronic digital computer that was programmable. (1944) Eniac is the first electronic general-purpose computer. (1946) Are everyone satisfied now? :laugh:
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Quite right, I was aware of the German work. Forgot it was called the Z3. The Nazis didn't see what it was good for. Destroyed by bombing if I remember. Another first.
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Leslie[^] ;) Kent beat you to it. Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Higher Order Programming
I keep getting lost on the way to the forum. And no. It wasn't a funny thing. :laugh:
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I think the ping time would make it kinda difficult to play! :laugh:
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I'm tired of the British always trying to steal American glory. If it were up to this American we'd of never introduced tea to the British Isles.
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Here we go:[](Americas First Computer)http://www.wired.com/2014/11/eniac-unearthed While we think 'the world' of Americans, they really must resist being so inbred; the World's First Computer was Collossus at Bletchley Park, or even Charles Babbage's 'Difference Engine'. There there. Eniac was America's First Computer. :laugh:
