J. Presper Eckert was born on this day in 1919; along with John Mauchly,
he was a co-designer of ENIAC, one of the world's first programmable
electronic computers. Yes, there is a long-running dispute over whether
ENIAC or Colossus was first; being a Pommie, I'm siding with Colossus :-)
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."