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[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

The first (turing complete) computer actually build was the Z3.
Not many people know about it, because central Berlin in 1943 was not a healthy place for a computer.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

It was 1941, and not seen as valuable by the Germans.

The British built Collosus in 1943 and used it for code breaking.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

It was build in 41 and bombed in 43, which is what I alluded to.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Yeah, the Manchester Baby was the first stored-program computer. As others have noticed, you can go down the rabbit hole a long way, depending on what you define as a computer. Fascinating stuff.

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