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by hobs 4684 days ago
The beginnings of computers being used for artillery projections and code breaking and then transferred over to commercial enterprise almost wholesale is documented fairly well in a book called Turing's Cathedral, but there were all sorts of pissed off people when Von Neumann went ahead and commercialized stuff that invented by others and was top secret. The british couldnt even comment on the fact that they had computers for a good 30 years.