[COFF] In memoriam: John Mauchly

[Dave Horsfall]

We lost a co-inventor of ENIAC, John Mauchly, on this day in 1980.  ENIAC 
is claimed to be the "first general purpose electronic digital computer", 
but I guess it comes down to a matter of definition[*], as every culture 
likes to be the "first" (just ask the Penguins, for example); for 
"computer" you could go all the way back to the Mk-I Antikythera (Hellenic 
variation, from about the 100BC production run)...

[*]
Analogue/digital/hybrid
Mechanical/electrical/electronic/hybrid
General/special
Wired/programmable/Turing
Prototype/production
Harvard/Neumann/quantum
Etc...

-- Dave