2 Jul
1997
2 Jul
'97
10:39 a.m.
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From: Nick Challoner
On 1 Jul 97 at 22:45, e.tedeschi wrote:
Yes! that was it. Thanks Enrico.
It was just called Colossus at the time (they ended up building 10 of
them). They're rebuilding one at Bletchley Park.
I would
be most interested in hearing peoples' views on where the
Bletchley Park computer (i can't remember its name)
Colossus I ? Now back to the main question in my
post: where does this fit in to the timeline of early computers?
The following are arguable....
Colossus (1944) was probably the first electronic computer.
ENIAC (1946) was probably the first general-purpose electronic computer,
while Colossus was built strictly to break a German cipher.
Manchester/Harvard Mark 1 (1948) was probably first electronic
stored-program computer.
(ENIAC, though built in '46, was made stored-program in 1948,
complicating matters somewhat)
EDSAC (1949) is sometimes called the first full-scale operational
stored-program computer.
UNIVAC 1 (1952) was probably the first commercial computer.
I haven't been able to find any citations of the first all-solid-state
computer.
Kai