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I saw a show on PBS about a guy named Joe Desch who in the 1930's was trying to make a cash register that calculated for NCR National Cash Register. He eventually worked for the US government in Dayton during WWII and built a huge machine that could decipher German coded messages. It wasn't like a personal computer, but it seemed an awful lot like the first computer to me. The project was the second most secret project behind the Manhattan Project. After the war, he manufactured the first calculating cash register. Also, I've heard somewhere that the folks at IBM in NYC are credited with building the first computer.

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