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    The document provides a brief history of computers from the 1930s to the 2010s. It describes how in 1937-1942, Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and student Clifford Berry built the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC), one of the first electronic digital computers, laying the foundations for modern computing. It then notes that the ABC was central to a patent dispute around computer inventions in the 1970s, which established that Atanasoff originated basic computer concepts but the computer itself could not be patented.

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    The document provides a brief history of computers from the 1930s to the 2010s. It describes how in 1937-1942, Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and student Clifford Berry built the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC), one of the first electronic digital computers, laying the foundations for modern computing. It then notes that the ABC was central to a patent dispute around computer inventions in the 1970s, which established that Atanasoff originated basic computer concepts but the computer itself could not be patented.

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    Computer through the years

    (1930s)

    1933
    1934
    1937
    1939
    (1940s)
    1940

    1941
    1942

    The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) is completed

     Computers

    After successfully
    demonstrating a proof-of-
    concept prototype in 1939,
    Professor John Vincent
    Atanasoff receives funds to
    build a full-scale machine at
    Iowa State College (now
    University). The machine was
    designed and built by
    Atanasoff and graduate
    student Clifford Berry between
    1939 and 1942. The ABC was
    at the center of a patent
    dispute related to the invention
    of the computer, which was resolved in 1973 when it was shown that
    ENIAC co-designer John Mauchly had seen the ABC shortly after it
    became functional.

    The legal result was a landmark: Atanasoff was declared the originator of
    several basic computer ideas, but the computer as a concept was declared
    un-patentable and thus freely open to all. A full-scale working replica of the
    ABC was completed in 1997, proving that the ABC machine functioned as
    Atanasoff had claimed. The replica is currently on display at the Computer
    History Museum.

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    (1950s)

    1950
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    (2010s)
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