Ideas of technology determine what technology will be invented.
Theory
What is a computer?
Modern computers are:
Machines
Binary
Stored-Memory
Electronic
General-purpose
Tide Machines
Computer Chronology
Babbage’s Difference Engine, 18221882-ish: Marquand circuits.Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry they created. By James W. Cortada
Atanasoff-Berry MachineSetting the Enigma: one of 456976 possible initial settings.Alab TuringProgramming the BombeHarvard Mark 1, 1945