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Either England or Germany. They bioth have valid claims. England- (England) Countess Ada Lovelace and the idea of what we would know call a thread exwcuting instructions in a stored program. Earlier, in Germany, Liebniz constructed the difference engine. While not a true digital computer it encompassed some of the features still found today. e.g., a program counter, different interpretation of data and instructions, fixed word length. So you choose which you think was the first digital computer. Let's not forget, there is another breed of computer (calculator actually) called an Abacus (this a very precise form of analog computer) and the Chinese came up with this long, long before the tike of Liebniz (Late17th - early 18th century) or Countess LOvelace (early 19th century).

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BTW, the programming language, ADA, is named in her honor.

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