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Sunday, December 11, 2005

The first electronic digital computer was invented in, believe it or not, Iowa. Its owner worked with a graduate student. The year was 1939. It weighed over seven hundred pounds, could perform one operation in fifteen seconds (compared with 200 billion seconds for Gateway and Dell today) and... Sign in to see full entry.

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