Where did the myth of Bill Gates creating the computer come from?

I think it was the PC not the computer.

Doh!

From this thread

First time I've heard of this myth.

his

it came from your brain because that's never been stated.

This myth is so widespread that even my sister said it before. A year ago exactly. So where did it come from?

Gates and company patented the Disk Operating System DOS.
IBM created the x86 PC.

Frater

Nobody said he created the computer. Cripes..............

I've never heard such rubbish.
Gates stole most of his 'ideas' from Xerox and Apple.

John Vincent Atanasoff (ataˈnasɔf; October 4, 1903 – June 15, 1995) was an American physicist and inventor.

The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer. His special-purpose machine has come to be called the Atanasoff–Berry Computer.

The son of a Bulgarian immigrant who became an electrical engineer, Atanasoff held positions as a teaching professor, a governmental wartime research director, and a corporate research executive before being recognized in the 1970s and 1980s for digital electronic computer research he conducted at Iowa State College in the late 1930s and early 1940s.



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