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To: carl a. mehr who wrote (98170)	2/4/2000 11:22:00 AM
From: carl a. mehr	Respond to of 186894

THE ATANASOFF-BERRY COMPUTER The First Electronic Digital Computer. A replica of this monster will be displayed for approximately one month starting Sunday at the Tech Museum in San Jose, California. <<In late 1939, Atanasoff teamed up with Berry to build the prototype, of the first computing machine to use electricity, vacuum tubes, binary numbers, and capacitors in a rotating drum which held the electrical charge for the memory.>> I still don't believe what I saw. I am speechless. Sons and daughters talked in glowing terms about the developers. Ok, that's great, but did the development of this 'machine' help in the development of subsequent computers? Let's ask Paul Engel or others to answer that question. Maybe we should let the ATANASOFF-BERRY COMPUTER Rest In Peace...humble eCarl