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John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer (died 1995)
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John Vincent Atanasoff
American computer pioneer (1903–1995)
John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer. Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College. Challenges to his claim were resolved in 1973 when the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Atanasoff–Berry computer
Early electronic digital computing device
The Atanasoff–Berry computer (ABC) was the first automatic electronic digital computer. The device was limited by the technology of the day. The ABC's priority is debated among historians of computer technology, because it was neither programmable, nor Turing-complete.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)