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To: mimi from mi

I’ll give Barry the benefit of the doubt and assume that he was referring to ENIAC, developed by the U.S. Army and was the first electronic (as opposed to electromechanical or non-electronic) digital computer.

But who cares? Even if the first computer was developed by the government, what the heck does that say or prove? Nothing, really. Private industry drove the computer explosion, and pretty much all of the successful computers of today are developed by private industry.


6 posted on 10/08/2008 7:58:33 PM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: RepublitarianRoger2

Rather than “developed” by the U.S. Army, I should say that the inventors of ENIAC were financed by the U.S. Army.


11 posted on 10/08/2008 8:02:00 PM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: RepublitarianRoger2

What about Colossus, the code breaking computer from WWII?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer

3 years before ENIAC.

And Obama is AGAINST military technology development.


18 posted on 10/08/2008 8:15:47 PM PDT by weegee (Obama's a uniter?"I want you to argue with them (friends,neighbors,Republicans) & get in their face")
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To: RepublitarianRoger2
I’ll give Barry the benefit of the doubt and assume that...

You really think Big Ears Barry knows any real history?

36 posted on 10/08/2008 8:49:44 PM PDT by Force of Truth (As to the bailout: Cui bono?: Follow the money.)
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