XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, sci.physics.relativity, sci.math
From: ttt_heg@web.de

Am Freitag000027, 27.06.2025 um 18:19 schrieb J Carlson:

>>>>>> There have been many rumors about Nazi Germany, that the Nazis
>>>>>> have actually built atomic bombs.
>>>>>
>>>>> If Call of Duty says so, it must be true.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The Computer was just invented in the era of the Nazis (actually in
>>>> Germany by Konrad Zuse).
>>>
>>> No, you stupid fucking Lügner, the first computer was not invented in
>>> Germany.
>>
>> Well, actually 'computers' were invented much earlier, like the ones
>> by Leibnitz or Pascal:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascaline
> We're talking about modern electronic computers, not mechanical
> computing machines.

The word 'computer' stems from the verb 'to compute'.

This meant actually human beings in the time earlier than the invention
of calculating machines.

Early mechanical devices were in a way also 'computers', because the
could compute.

So, Zuse's Z1 was not the first computer, of course.

But Zuse invented a system to make his machine freely programmable.

THAT was his novelty.


TH

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