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Dr. Atanasoff's Computer

The men who for decades were credited with inventing the first electronic digital computers were not, in fact, first. That honor belongs to a once forgotten physicist named John V. Atanasof

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 259 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “Dr. Atanasoff's Computer” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 259 No. 2 (), p. 90
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0888-90