What is the first computer?

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Fri Jun 19 01:06:05 1998

Rax wrote:
>
> Late-comers, all of them. My vote for the earliest computer is the
> Antikythera Device, a bronze mechanical lunar month calculator built
> in
> Greece about 80AD.

A very interesting book I was given some number of months ago is titled
"The Origins of Digital Computers" which is a selection of papers edited
by Brian Randell. It includes papers by Babbage, Hollerith, Zues,
Schreyer, Aiken, Phillips, J. von Neumann, and quite a few others. I
don't know how hard to come by this book is but it well deserves a place
in any collectors library.
Received on Fri Jun 19 1998 - 01:06:05 BST