How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap

Re:How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap... by snooze82 on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @09:05AM (#8657733)

ENIAC? Zuse Z3!

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Re:How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap... by frtab on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @09:08AM (#8657747)

Zuse Z3? Babbage's Analytical Engine!

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Re:How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap... by VLM on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @09:09AM (#8657752)

"Babbage's Analytical Engine!"

First computer not first vaporware

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Re:How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap... by Hermel on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @09:40AM (#8657861)

The Z3 was the first operational turing-complete computer (May 1941, a few years before ENIAC). Babbage's analytical engine was never actually built.

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Re:How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap... by CmonDev on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @10:26AM (#8658060)

For me, as a software developer, it's about detailed design rather than implementation. 1837-s design is much more impressive than 1941-s implementation (100+ years later - you'd better build something with all that time).

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Re:How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap... by cabalamat on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @09:08AM (#8657749)

I thought it would be about the Analytical Engine.

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Re:How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap... by Malic on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @09:42AM (#8657873)

Funny, I was expecting the Antikythera mechanism.

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Re:How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap... by CmonDev on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @10:27AM (#8658064)

Antikythera is not Turing-complete unlike the brain. So which prehistoric creature did they resurrect?

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