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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sell their fledgling computer company to Remington Rand. The final insult came in 1973. Seeking to invalidate Mauchly and Eckert's patent for "the" electronic computer, Honeywell convinced a federal judge that Mauchly had based his ideas for ENIAC on the work of a computer pioneer named John Atanasoff. The patent was dismissed, and Mauchly and Eckert lost legal claim to one of the great inventions of the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Birthday Party for Eniac | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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