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If you are interested in the History of Computer, 
you may check the following web site.

http://ox.compsoc.net/~swhite/timeline.html

However, please be warned that some dates
may not be absolutely correct!
-Lingran


David E. Bernholdt wrote:
> 
> I don't want to enter this fray except to say that one must be careful
> to distinguish betweeen (a) analog and digital computers, and (b)
> purpose-specific and general programmable computers.  Many early
> computers were hardwired for specific tasks. I think you're free to
> argue as much about the definition of the earliest computer as you are
> about what constituted computational chemistry :-)
> 
> Incidentally, I know that Iowa State U claims that that the
> Atanasoff-Berry Computer (built 1937-1942) was the first _digital_
> computer, predating ENIAC. (http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/ABC/ABC.html)
> 
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