You may know about Alan Turing or John von Neumann, but what about John Vincent Atanasoff or Konrad Zuse? According to Wikipedia: > John Vincent Atanasoff (October 4, 1903 – June 15, 1995) was an American physicist and inventor credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer. Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College (now known as Iowa State University). and > The original ABC was eventually dismantled in 1948, when the univers...