Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!reading!riddle!domo 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 References:<8851@cup.portal.com> <6085@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <613@unisv.UUCP> <5525@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Reply-To: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop) Organization: Sphinx Ltd., Maidenhead, England Lines: 17 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