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With $650 and Determination, UF ECE Alumnus Created the Digital Computer
August 1, 2025History has come to show that it was in 1937 that an alumnus of the University of Florida Electrical Engineering Department, John Vincent Atanasoff, went for a lonely drive and, in a bar, scribbled on a cocktail napkin the beginning pillars of modern computing, and in doing so, invented the digital computer.
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