Yep, it's still being taught that ENIAC was the first electronic digital computer. But it was John Atansoff and his grad student assistant Clifford Berry that *really* invented it at the University of Iowa around 1940. WW-II ultimately interrupted the work, thus robbing Atanasoff-Berry of their deserved credit. It was all finally set straight in a court ruling in 1973...
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Yep, it's still being taught that ENIAC was the first electronic digital computer. But it was John Atansoff and his grad student assistant Clifford Berry that *really* invented it at the University of Iowa around 1940. WW-II ultimately interrupted the work, thus robbing Atanasoff-Berry of their deserved credit. It was all finally set straight in a court ruling in 1973...