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The Colossus computers used at Bletchley Park during World War II, for cryptanalysis purposes, are widely acknowledged as the first programmable digital computers.

Technically, the word 'computer' means 'one who computes', and doesn't refer to a machine, but rather people who were employed down the ages as 'computers' to decide on a persons tax liability.

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AMES, Iowa--The first electronic computer was finished in 1942, when its creator at Iowa State University was called up for the war effort. Another one at the University of Pennsylvania, funded by the military, was finished in 1945.

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