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From: Invisible
Date: 7 Oct 2009 04:20:45
Message: <4acc4f5d$1@news.povray.org>
>> Hey, you want to be able to spell properly, *you* invent computers. ;-)
> 
> Now here's me thinking that it was the Brits who invented the first modern
> (programmable) computer. With the Bombe being built at Bletchley Park.

Likewise. It's just down the road from me.

But then, the programmable computer is one invention which really can't 
be geniunely said to have been "invented" by just one person. This one 
was actually down to many, many great minds.


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