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The First Computer Program
Patented: History of Inventions
The History of Computers
The NEAC was not a programmable computer, so it's not a modern computer. It wasn't configured in a way that we know of really as amodern computer. And again, it was using this kind of old-fashioned telephone switchboard type thing to calculate these trajectories. Now, if every time we wanted to switch apps on our smartphones, we had to rewire it,. I think you can understand that they probably wouldn't have taken off in the same way.
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