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        <title><![CDATA[The difference being]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-317434-3210339]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[&quot;The very first electronic&quot; - the ABCand&quot;The first programmable electronic&quot; - the Colossushttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff%E2%80%93Berry_Computer#Comparison_with_other_early_computers]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:33:50 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The 'ABC'...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[was constructed and tested in the early 1930's, not the 1940's as you propose, therefore the Atanasoff-Berry Computer **is** the very first all electronic digital computer.  It pioneered such circuits as the half-adder, full-adder and shift registers, and the use of binary math to calculate math equations.  Its memory was capacitive memory modules which were controlled by vacuum tubes as well--it only had a few hundred bytes of memory.  The machine was programmed by toggle switches turning on and off registers in sequence to produce correct results--primitive even compared to machines built in the 1950's, but it worked.  The ENIAC was proved in court that its engineers copied, and subsequently improved the circuit designs Dr. Atansoff originally created and Clifford Berry (a EE graduate student at the time) built.  Iowa State University won a **massive** patent infringement law suit back in the 1990's against MIT, IBM, et. al., enough to build a whole computer science complex to unify its computer technology departments.  To the best of my knowledge, there are no other electronic machines dating from the 1930's that are considered computing machines.  That is how the ABC is the **first** electronic digital computer, not Colossus.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dpresley_50201@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:54:58 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Almost right -]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-317434-3208475]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Your boss is almost right - 95 was the Alpha-test version, 98 was the Beta, and 98SE was the stable finished product...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[oldbaritone]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:28:06 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Win 3, as with Win 1, 2, and 386]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-317434-3208313]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[was simply a graphical shell that ran on top of DOS.Win95 and 98 were still heavily DOS-based, but they hid it under the GUI.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:17:12 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I liked this]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-317434-3208249]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[clear and pretty straight forward. I see no personal prejudice in choosing the events. All of them struck right to the point.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[vnuguri@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:45:26 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fat Mac...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Was the 512k, yeah?  I think I still have mine around here somewhere...anyone want the 5mb external drive?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Zeroesque]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:27:25 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[OMG....this thread never ends...............]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-317434-3195948]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Haven't got time to read them all but suffice to say there are as many opinions on this as there are top ten items...............]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[gbhouw@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:30:47 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Been there, done that]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[and learned to put sequence numbers on the cards.THEN I learned to put sequence numbers in multiples of 10 so there was room to add a card without needing to re-punch the rest of the deck!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[oldbaritone]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:19:23 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pivotal points...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Fortran, timesharing, re-entrant code...Has anyone ever tried programming using a punch card and submit via batch...Ever dropped those cards which were not sequenced.. Of course the younger crowd will never know what this was all about.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mike_patburgess@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:40:47 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Apple gave Microsoft something to copy]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-317434-3195248]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Perhaps you are dating yourself, but Apple  not only distributed the first widespread GUI but associated that with formal HIGs (Human Interface Guidelines). Innovation at Apple did not start with the iPod, but has been a hallmark of the company since day 1!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[bonillap@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:09:18 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[DEC's Lunar Lander]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-317434-3195185]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Also Long before Doom, Wolfenstein.Perhaps the first GUI game - circa 1973.DEC had a neat Lunar Lander game that played on (loaded into) a dedicated (PDP-6?) graphics terminal with a light pen. Wireframe graphics, 2-D - but remarkable for its time.The game is still around as freeware for PC. Lame by today's standards, but it's gettin' close to 40 years old! PC wasn't even invented yet! And 10 years later when it was, those were the 640K / 4.77 MHz / 8-bit / CGA days. Graphics co-processors wouldn't come around for 10 more years after that!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[oldbaritone]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:48:09 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Adventure: The Colossal Cave]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-317434-3195182]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Long before Doom, Wolfenstein - or even GUI!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[oldbaritone]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:40:32 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[SuperCalc]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-317434-3195181]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I can't remember which came first - Visicalc or SuperCalc - I remember having SuperCalc on my old Imsai 8080 running CP/M. Not GUI, tho.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[oldbaritone]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:35:30 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[GLAD YOU SAID IT!!!]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-317434-3194719]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Don't normally read these &quot;top 10&quot; lists, since they, for the most part, are compiled by &quot;consultants&quot; with limited first-hand knowledge of (thier term) &quot;modern computing&quot;.  This is just another example of the &quot;kids&quot; thinking that there was very little IT life before the discovery of the PC.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dsmith32837@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:16:45 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[James is Quite Right!]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-317434-3194688]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I would like to remind everyone of the bumper-stickers that read &quot;Windows 95 - Macintosh 92&quot;.  I also think that it should be mentioned (yet again) that Apple sued (and lost to) Microsoft for duplicating the desktop/icon paradigm as a copyright violation.  Microsoft then immediately sued RedHat for the exact same copyright violation (and lost! what were they thinking?).  Sales and marketing success is a far cry from technical innovation, as you mention in the blog about WordPerfect.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Babe_]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:46:30 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: The 10 biggest moments in IT history]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-317434-3183901]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Introduction of DirectXhas changed the world of game programming to a different stage. maybe the support at the earlier phase is not really satisfactory but it eases the amount of time programmers have to spend to code. Rather drilling down to the machine code or assembly language, accessing the API classes and methods really  cut down the hassle of coding the game. Of course it speed up the time taken for the development]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[muadzir@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:38:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Telecom Act of 1996!!!!]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-317434-3177803]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[The objective was to open up markets to competition by removing unnecessary regulatory barriers to entry and &quot;to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced services and information technologies and services to all Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition....?  (source=wikipedia)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[digibecky]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:29:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Re COBOL not used?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-317434-3177432]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[cobol still used, of course.many of mainframe still using cobol because of it's fast batch processing.iam cobol developer at 1995 that ever scared by millenium bug issue.But, assembly programming is the core of every programming language.Without assembly there's no operating system, there's no software.So i can say that assembler is used by every software.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sanyen@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:11:21 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Google]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-317434-3176692]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Hey, What about the start of Google company?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jwwatson01@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:29:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[AMEN!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[(nt)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[oldbaritone]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:49:21 -0700</pubDate>
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