John Backus was a US mathematician, born in 1924. He didn't invent the computer, but he did develop FORTRAN, a computer language. For that and for other achievements in computer programming, he received the Turing Award in 1977.
John Warner Backus of IBM, FORTRAN.
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John Backus died on 2007-03-17.
John Backus - acoustician - was born in 1911.
John Backus - acoustician - died in 1988.
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John C. Backus has written: 'An historical discourse'
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he invented floppy diskes he was a computer person he founded a old computer company and was a computer enginer.
He invented the first electro digital computer
the person who invented the 1st personal computer was Steve wozniak. he invented the apple computer.
Lynott was part of the team that invented the magnetic disk drive - basically, he helped invent the computer hard drive.