From:	Robert Watkins robert.watkins@******.com
Subject:	Headware Memory
Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:28:47 +1000

> I will conceed the fact that Pascal's differential comptuter was
> in fact an
> analog device, but it never worked for much. And most of the machines you
> seem to be refering to were basicly specialized caluclators, not true
> multifunction computers like sit on your desk. The first example
> of THAT (a
> computing machine you could actualy program) was Multivac, and it
> was digital.

The first computers made by the British War Office and the US Department of
War were base 10. These were mechanical, not electrical. The first prototype
designs for electrical computers also used base 10 logic until they decided
that it was too difficult to wire, and offered few benefits over base 2
logic.

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