Yes.... but.... the winners get to write the history :-( Did the
Machine and the people survive the war? If so what happened to them?
I guess is depends on your definition of "computer". There was clearly
a progression from mechanical to electromechanical (relay logic) to
thermionic valves. The question of which nation invented "The"
computer is impossible to settle, so I think we should all just learn
to get along and agree it was the British.
Not withstand the German propaganda above
The Computer as we know it
was a British invention and AFAIK the first "commercial" one was the
Manchester one followed by the Leo.
As for the "PC" The American designed IBM PC is long dead. Even that was
not All American. Many of the add in cards were not to start with. As it
developed the architecture and parts have a distinctly international
feel to them.
When the PC developed PCI, VESA, AGP etc are not American as many people
had an input. There are many chip-sets and Bios in use in a modern PC
not al are American.
What the Americans forget is most of their inventions were mainly done
by non-US citizens who moved to the US because of the upheavals in
Europe in the 20th century. Einstein for one. He was German.
90% of the US aero-space technology is German. They removed it from
Germany at gunpoint. That includes shooting at and imprisoning their
allies at some points.
Much of the US jet engine design came from Germany and the UK (My
father worked on jet engine design just after the war, TSR2, Olympus and
Pegasus etc)
In fact many things the US think they inventor were invented somewhere
else. Jeremy Clarckson did along list of them a while back.
