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From: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Look & Feel  (Was: PK vs ARC)
Summary: Read about Atansov in August 88 Scientific American
Message-ID: <917@riddle.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 88 10:27:51 GMT
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Reply-To: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
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In article <5525@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> u-word!egs@killer.Dallas.TX.US
	(Eric Schnoebelen) writes:
>> [Stuff about Univac inventing the digital computer deleted]

>No, not Univac.  The Gentlemen who brought you the Eniac, got at least
>some of their ideas from a gentleman name Dr. John Vincent Atanasoff...
>For more information about the above, there have been two book published
>recently, one by the ISU Press, A biography of the ABC and the
>subsequent lawsuits, and another by University of Michigan Press...

Easier to assimilate and get hold of (if you've access to a library) is the
August 1988 edition of Scientific American, which has a paper (or should
that be article?) on the subject.  (If not August, try July -- like Eric's
books, my magazines are at home.)
-- 
Dominic Dunlop
domo@sphinx.co.uk  domo@riddle.uucp