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I'd never heard of the ABC computer before. The Iowa State website seems to have reached the conclusion that Mauchly ripped off Atansoff and Berry.

Every invention, every discovery, emerges from a context, a culture, a society of thinkers. How can credit ever be properly assigned?

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I forgot the name but there's a book on the history of this computer. It's a good read. This is apparently a historically controversial topic.

If you mean https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003F3FJKA/, I agree it's interesting -- on an interesting topic by an excellent writer -- but you have to allow quite a lot for the author's poor understanding of computers.

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