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For what it's worth, the word "electronic" in that description is a lot more load-bearing than it looks, excluding machines such as the Harvard Mark I (ASCC) and Bell Labs Relay Computers, both of which were solving problems under program control years earlier (unlike the Eniac, which initially had to be rewired for every problem -- stored-program control was added years later).



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