Education of the Mind: TIL the first programmable computer was mechanical. Built in the 1930's, it had memory and was capable of Boolean logic and calculations with floating point numbers. It was also huge and unreliable.

Thursday, July 13, 2017

TIL the first programmable computer was mechanical. Built in the 1930's, it had memory and was capable of Boolean logic and calculations with floating point numbers. It was also huge and unreliable.

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