clipka wrote:

> Programmable computers? A German invention.

Programmable *electronic* computers? Maybe.

Perhaps you're forgetting a certain Charles Babbage, who designed a 
Turing-complete mechanical computer _several hundred_ years earlier. (I 
will admit, however, that it was never actually *built*.)

As I originally asserted: The modern computer really cannot be 
attributed to any one single individual. It was a team effort, over a 
period of several centuries...

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