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cygx on July 29, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The American-Western European Values Gap

The first programmable electronic computer was built by Tommy Flowers in the UK for WWII codebreaking.

The Z3 predates Colossus. [1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_%28computer%29

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware

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