Hans Bethe believed that without John von Neumann, the development of modern computers would at best have been delayed ten years or more.

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Unless you fancy using three different machines to run Word, Excel and PowerPoint, give credit to the fathers of Eniac, the first reprogrammable computer: John Mauchly, Presper Eckert and John von Neumann.

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