[Ads-l] digital computer

[James A. Landau]

A 1945 usage

John von Neumann "First Draft of a Report n the EDVAC" Philadelphia, 1945, pp 1-2, as quoted in Herman H. Goldstine _The Computer from Pascal to von Neuman_ Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972, ISBN 0-691-08104-2, page 192:

"1.1  The considerations which follow deal with the structure of a <begin italics> very high speed automatic digital computing system<end italics>"

Well, not "computer" but "computing system".

- Jim Landau

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