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Feb 10th, 2005

That was the first AMERICAN computer, but the English claim to have an earlier WWII stored-program computer that was a code breaker and therefore "secret". It was called "Colossus" and has been reconstructed....

http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/lorenz/rebuild.htm

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Feb 10th, 2005

Oh, I take that back, it was not a stored-program computer but then neither, apparently, was ENIAC. They both apparently used wires and switches.

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Originally Posted by Real-tiner

ENIAC was the first computer where the program was stored in random access memory.

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