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Eternal glory to a' machine '

Your computer is now among the largest in history

As a human being, the PC enters the Hall of Fame, the Hall of the people to remember for the rest of the day's first
computer is called ABC and was designed more than 70 years ago. And after the world was like before

They called, prophetically, ABC, without thinking that it would become, within a few decades, the alphabet of the new millennium. It is the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the world's first computer, designed and built at the University of Iowa between 1937 and 1942 by the American researchers John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry. Together with the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIC), considered by historians as the first machine capable of being reprogrammed to solve specific problems, the centerpiece of the ABC's first museum exhibition organized in the United States to retrace the history of the computer. They opened in California in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, near San Francisco, where it already there was the Computer History Museum. But this exhibition show, not surprisingly named "Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing" (Revolution: the first 200 years of the art of computer), wants to be the most current, complete and comprehensive exhibition ever staged in the world in terms of computers. To set it up were spent, in fact, 19 million dollars, and between donors include names such as Bill Gates or Hewlett & Packard. "Revolution" offers a glimpse of that revolution of the millennium that has changed the world: the ABC, which occupied an entire room in Iowa, the iPad or iPhone. "They are emblematic of the 'era of transition in to which we are living as the human race - told the New York Times on the museum's chairman, Leonard J. Shestek -. From the time that there was no computer at a time when computers are in everything we touch. Spread over 19 halls, the exhibition is a journey not longer than half a century through the evolution of that object more than any other has changed the way we live today. Who remembers the Commodore 64? Today, in the era of Facebook and Twitter, it seems prehistoric. Yet that computer just goes back to 1982 and was long the Eighties, the world's most popular car. The exhibition will remain permanently in Mountain View. "But as we landed 15 years in Silicon Valley to give the world's first computer museum - said Shustek - it is not impossible that in 15 years will open this exhibition in Shanghai. We follow innovation wherever it takes us into the world.