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Re:80's kids started programming at an earlier age than today's millen...
on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @11:17AM (#16223852)
I've started with 8. VIC20 BASIC.
Re:Mary Lee Berners-Lee has died
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.
Re:Mary Lee Berners-Lee has died
on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @09:39AM (#16222993)
It's funny as every country has their own computer founding myths with them in the center.
"[...] became the first in the world to be sold commercially: the Ferranti Mark I."
While Germany maintains that the first commercially sold general purpuse computer was a Zuse Z4.
Even the Wikipedia pages disagree in each language. I'm sure the French have their version of computer history.