Computer course in 1969?

[ZR1427]

Talking with my old dad today about PC's,off he went and brought back some exersize books from when he went on a Computer course for his firm in.........1969? tutored by IBM.
Didnt think they existed then ,that was it he started telling me all about the Enigma,Bless him.

[Bodo]

Computers are a lot older; during 1936 to 1938 Konrad Zuse developed and built the first binary digital computer.

[john_p]

Depends how you define a computer!

Babbage probably made the first mechanical one.. in the early 19th century.

The first stored-program computers, the Manchester Baby and EDSAC (Cambridge) - which ran on the same basic principle that computers do today, that programs and data share the same memory space - were built in the UK just after WW2, based on the American von Neumann/Moore School EDVAC design.

[FourWheelDrift]

The Royal Navy also used a mechanical computer during WWI on all it's capital ships called a "Dreyer Table" and used a realtime engine to power it called the "Dumaresq" which constantly changed the settings on the Dreyer Table for the pitch/roll and speed of the ship.



It didn't work very well

[Godfrey H]

Oi, cheekey monkey, I started my computer career in 1969 , and yes the codebreaking Colossus was still an official secret.

[pesty]

I think American Submarines in WW2 also used a computer* to calulate when to fire the Torpedoes.

You put in speed distance bearing etc etc of target and sub and it told you what angle and when to fire the torpedoes.