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Who Invented the Computer? The Legal Battle That Changed Computing History

In 1973, Federal District Judge Earl R. Download Who Invented the Computer? The Legal Battle That Changed Computing History from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Larson issued a ruling in a patent case that was to have profound and long-lasting implications for the dawning computer revolution. Against all expectations, the judge ruled against Sperry Rand Corp., which claimed to hold the patent on the first computer dubbed the AENIACA and was demanding huge royalties on all electronic data processing sales by Honeywell Inc. and other large competitors. The judge came to the conclusion that in fact the ENIAC was not the first computer but was a derivative of an obscure computer called the ABC, which had been developed in the late thirties by a largely unknown professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, named John V. Atanasoff.
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