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Iowa origins of the computer and the microchip era
David V. Wendell argues that Iowa State University pioneers Atanasoff and Berry deserve credit for the first electronic computer the ABC. The column traces ENIAC UNIVAC and the 1973 court ruling crediting Atanasoff and Berry, contrasts with today’s microprocessor shortage, and notes ISU’s early work and Wendell’s historical view.
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Intel
TSMC
Samsung
Texas
Arizona
ABC
Iowa State University
John Atanasoff
Clifford Berry
Atanasoff Berry
Iowa State
Atanasoff
U.S
Bulgaria
Ursinus University
Philadelphia
John Mauchly
ISU
Berry
Mauchly
Pennsylvania
J.P. Eckert
Ames
Ise
Mauchly and Eckert
ENIAC
Univac
Census Bureau
Sperry Rand Corporation
R.K. Richards
Eckert
Richards
Rand Corporation
Honeywell Corporation
Rand
Iowa