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    The AtanasoffBerry computer (ABC) was the first automatic electronic digital computer. The device was limited by the technology of the day. The ABC's...
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    ruled that Atanasoff was the inventor of the computer. His special-purpose machine has come to be called the AtanasoffBerry Computer. Atanasoff was born...
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  • Clifford Edward Berry (April 19, 1918 – October 30, 1963) was an American computer scientist who helped John Vincent Atanasoff create the first digital...
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    Vincent Atanasoff conceptualized the basic tenets of what would become the world's first electronic digital computer, the AtanasoffBerry Computer (ABC)...
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    using vacuum tubes for computation, the AtanasoffBerry computer, was demonstrated in 1939. Vacuum-tube computers were initially one-of-a-kind designs,...
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    and more powerful computing machines such as the AtanasoffBerry computer and ENIAC, the term computer came to refer to the machines rather than their...
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    John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry of Iowa State University developed the AtanasoffBerry Computer (ABC) in 1942, the first binary electronic...
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    the US, John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry of Iowa State University developed and tested the AtanasoffBerry Computer (ABC) in 1942, the first...
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    December 1939 John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry completed their experimental model to prove the concept of the AtanasoffBerry computer (ABC) which began...
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    several weeks for a human computer. For a variety of reasons – including Mauchly's June 1941 examination of the AtanasoffBerry computer (ABC), prototyped in...
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    gaming computers as well with their increasing popularity with families everywhere. The first "modern" computer was made in 1942, the AtanasoffBerry Computer...
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  • theorist (born 1925) 1995 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and inventor, invented the AtanasoffBerry computer (born 1903) 1996 – Ella Fitzgerald...
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  • the AtanasoffBerry Computer of the late 1930s - neither John Vincent Atanasoff nor Clifford Berry worked on this machine. IAS machine Computer Music...
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  • politician (died 1993) 1903 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the AtanasoffBerry computer (died 1995) 1903 – Pierre Garbay,...
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    John Gustafson (scientist) (category American computer businesspeople)
    first commercial computer cluster,[citation needed] measuring with QUIPS, leading the reconstruction of the AtanasoffBerry computer, inventing the unum...
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    University and Clifford Berry a former graduate under electrical engineering and physics. Together, they created the AtanasoffBerry computer, also known as the...
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    SEC (Simple Electronic Computer), and APE(X)C. The world's first electronic digital computer, the AtanasoffBerry computer, was built on the Iowa State...
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  • the computer. The book follows Atanasoff as he collaborates with others to develop the 1942 AtanasoffBerry Computer (ABC), the first electronic digital...
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    gesture. January 15 – John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry describe the workings of the AtanasoffBerry computer in print. January 19 – WWII: British...
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    trajectories. The Colossus (1943), built by Tommy Flowers, and the AtanasoffBerry computer (1942) used thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) and binary representation...
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  • and he impressed it on his collaborators. Many early computers, such as the AtanasoffBerry computer, were not reprogrammable. They executed a single hardwired...
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  • and imagining of what computers could do. ~ Items marked with a tilde are circa dates. Biography portal Lists portal Computer Pioneer Award IEEE John...
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    Information Age (redirect from Computer Age)
    of the first electronic computers, based on vacuum tubes, including the Z3, the AtanasoffBerry Computer, Colossus computer, and ENIAC. The invention...
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    Analytical engine (category Computer-related introductions in 1837)
    a proposed digital mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. It was first described...
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    75 via Main Street. John Vincent Atanasoff, inventor who created the first binary computer, AtanasoffBerry Computer. William Plummer Benton, Served as...
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    Vincent Atanasoff (1903–1995), ISU Math M.S. 1926 (see also AtanasoffBerry Computer), inventor of the first electronic digital computer Clifford E. Berry (1918–1963)...
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  • Honeywell, Inc. v. Sperry Rand Corp. (category Computer industry)
    digital computer from the AtanasoffBerry computer (ABC), prototyped in 1939 by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry, 2. that Atanasoff should have legal recognition...
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    been used for earlier memory schemes, such as the drum of the AtanasoffBerry Computer, the Williams tube and the Selectron tube. While it offered higher...
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    "excess three" code in the Complex Computer 1937: AtanasoffBerry Computer 1938: Konrad Zuse Z1 Most modern computers use binary encoding for instructions...
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    and newspapers, such as the Peerless Cookbook, Good Housekeeping, and Berry's Fruit Recipes. While Carver's was not the first American agricultural bulletin...
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