Saturday, 19 October 2013

The Berry-Atanasoff Case

Today is the fortieth anniversary of a patent ruling which was of great commercial import to the IT industry in the United States. We now know that the Berry-Atanasoff analyzer was not a computer in the sense we mean it today, but nor was Eniac the first working stored-program machine, being anticipated by at least two computers in the UK.

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