With the backdrop of WWII, Turing wasn’t the only mathematician working on computers. Konrad Zuse, financed by the Nazi regime in Germany was also working on something similar, in fact he actually built this machine much earlier. However, the German government decided it wasn’t necessary to invest in this during wartime. In the UK, the government took a different approach and invested. Attempts were made in the US, but it was two Brits, Tommy Flowers and Max Newman, who created the first electronic, digital and programmable computer. Although it was similar to Turing’s vision, it wasn’t quite perfect. It was the ENIAC, developed by the American army at the University of Pennsylvania that was closest to Turing’s supercomputer.
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