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Re:Mary Lee Berners-Lee has died by walshemj on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @10:34AM (#16223412)
Not quite sure that the Zuze counts other wise you could claim that colossus was "sold" to HMG by the GPO.

I seriously doubt that in 44 there would be any non governmental buyers for computers in Germany.

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Re:Mary Lee Berners-Lee has died by ComputerInv on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @11:03AM (#16223701)
Not that I want to get into a fight[1] ;-) the Ferranti was sold in 02/1951, the UNIVAC I was sold 03/1951 and the Zuse Z4 was sold 09/1950.

Not sure the Colossus was a commercialy available computer everyone could buy in '44? The Z3 was "sold" in '43 to the GAC - but was not turing complete in '43.

[1] My personal believe is it's those geniuses not countries that did the invention, it's often a team effort, people are standing on the shoulders of giants and it's always difficult to define "first" plus at the same time irrelevant.

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Re:Mary Lee Berners-Lee has died by WillReplyfFood on Thursday January 25, 2018 @08:13AM (#16230552)
We should search the church chronicles. First is always the guy to swear the loudest.
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