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Henry Strauß's avatar

once again, this article is neglecting the role of Konrad Zuse:

Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (/ˈzuːsə/;[5]German: [ˈkɔnʁaːt ˈtsuːzə]; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is regarded by some as the inventor and father of the modern computer.[6][7][8][9][10][11]

more can be read on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse

—Henry

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Paul McJones's avatar

You say, "In the ENIAC the form of the that storage (decimal) was quite different to that of the data that ENIAC operated on (binary)." Actually, ENIAC's 20 10-digit accumulators were decimal. Source: Wikipedia, and various references it cites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

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