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Nature 441, 25 (4 May 2006) | doi:10.1038/441025d; Published online 3 May 2006
Colossus was the first electronic digital computer
Jürgen Schmidhuber1
- Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Galleria 2, 6928 Manno-Lugano, Switzerland, and Institut für Informatik, TUM, Boltzmannstra
e 3, D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany
Your timeline ("Milestones in scientific computing" Nature 440, 399–405; 200610.1038/440399a) starts in 1946 with ENIAC, "widely thought of as the first electronic digital computer".
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