Re: CCL:The "birth-year" of computational chemistry?

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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