Thefirst computerwas the ENIAC , right ? expect , no ? If you ’re quick to be schooled — by Pulitzer winningA Thousand AcresauthorJane Smiley , no less — assure outthis Wired interviewthat gives credit where it ’s due : Iowa .
It may seem a fiddling incongruous that Smiley ’s current project , The Man Who make up the Computer , is a life story of John Vincent Atanasoff , who begin forum of his desk - sized information processing system at Iowa State University in the recent 1930s . But then you call up two thing : one , that Smiley wait on and taught at Iowa State for two decades , and that geek stories have every turn as much curiosity and passion to them as King Lear ever did . [ Wired ; Photo credit : Alessandra Sanguinetti ]
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